U+08C9 "ࣉ" Arabic Small Farsi Yeh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08C9 "ࣉ" Arabic Small Farsi Yeh is a diacritical mark used in certain Arabic-script orthographies, primarily for languages like Sindhi or other regional languages influenced by Persian calligraphy, to represent a short or reduced form of the vowel "yeh" sound. Unlike the full Farsi Yeh letter, this small version is written as a superscript or inline marker to indicate a specific phonetic nuance, such as a shortened or unstressed /iː/ or /eː/ vowel, often in the context of vowel harmony or grammatical endings. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and is not commonly used in standard Arabic, but appears in specialized religious or scholarly texts where precise vocalization is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08C9 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small Farsi Yeh |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࣉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࣉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA3 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08c9 |