U+08CA "࣊" Arabic Small High Farsi Yeh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+08CA "࣊" Arabic Small High Farsi Yeh is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to represent a superscript or "high" form of the Farsi Yeh (the letter yeh as used in Persian). It appears above the baseline of a base character to indicate a short, high vowel sound or a grammatical modification depending on the language, primarily found in certain Quranic orthographies and African languages like Hausa or Fulani that extend the Arabic alphabet. This character belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block, where it serves as a non-joining, combining mark that does not alter the underlying consonant but adds phonetic nuance, particularly in contexts where the standard Arabic yeh would conflict with Persian vowel conventions.

General Properties

Code Point U+08CA
Version Added 14.0
Name Arabic Small High Farsi Yeh
Block Arabic Extended-A
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Above
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࣊
HTML Hex Encoding ࣊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA3 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x08CA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000008CA
C/C++/Java Escape \u08ca

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Modifier Combining Mark Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend