U+08CD "࣍" Arabic Small High Zah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࣍
U+08CD "࣍" Arabic Small High Zah is a combining diacritical mark used in the extended Arabic script, primarily for Quranic and religious orthography to denote specific phonetic or grammatical features, such as indicating a subtle emphatic or whispered articulation called "zah" in certain recitation traditions. It appears above Arabic base letters to modify their pronunciation, and its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation of classical texts where precise vowel and consonantal nuances must be preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08CD |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Zah |
| 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 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08cd |