U+08CB "࣋" Arabic Small High Yeh Barree with Two Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08CB "࣋" Arabic Small High Yeh Barree with Two Dots Below is a combining diacritical mark used in Arabic script, specifically for extended Quranic and scholarly annotations. It appears as a small, elevated Yeh-like stroke positioned above a base letter, accompanied by two dots placed below the letter, serving to indicate a precise or non-standard vowel or consonantal pronunciation in phonetic or orthographic transcription. This character belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block, where it supports the representation of rare or specialized phonological distinctions in certain African languages and manuscript traditions, ensuring accurate textual preservation and recitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08CB |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Yeh Barree with Two Dots Below |
| 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 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08cb |