U+08D2 "࣒" Arabic Large Round Dot Inside Circle Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࣒
U+08D2 "࣒" Arabic Large Round Dot Inside Circle Below is a diacritical mark used in the extended Arabic script, specifically within certain Quranic and scholarly texts to indicate a distinct phonetic or orthographic nuance, such as a specific type of vowel length, emphasis, or recitation instruction. Its design features a prominent round dot enclosed within a circle, positioned below the base letter, and it serves as a specialized sign for precise textual annotation rather than a standard letter or common punctuation. This character belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and is intended for use in environments requiring advanced typographic representation of classical Arabic manuscripts or religious notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08D2 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Large Round Dot Inside Circle Below |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࣒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࣒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA3 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08D2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008D2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08d2 |