U+08CC "࣌" Arabic Small High Word Sah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࣌
U+08CC "࣌" Arabic Small High Word Sah is a combining diacritical mark used in Arabic script, specifically within the extended Arabic presentation forms block for Quranic and religious text annotation. It appears as a small, high-positioned mark that indicates a pause or a specific recitation instruction, often associated with the word "Sah" meaning correct or valid, guiding the reader to continue without breath in certain contexts of Tajweed or Quranic recitation. This character is not a standalone letter but a modifier applied to base Arabic characters to denote subtle pronunciation rules.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08CC |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Word Sah |
| 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 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08cc |