U+08D5 "ࣕ" Arabic Small High Sad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣕ
U+08D5 "ࣕ" Arabic Small High Sad is a combining diacritical mark used in certain Arabic script orthographies, particularly for representing the emphatic consonant /sˤ/ in a smaller, raised position above a base letter. It functions within the extended Arabic block to enable precise phonetic transcription or Quranic notation, where it may indicate a subtle pronunciation nuance or serve as a variant of the standard Arabic letter Ṣād. This character is rendered as a small, raised form of the consonant Sad, distinct from the full-size letter, and is typically employed in scholarly or liturgical texts to specify vowel quality or consonantal emphasis without altering the base letter's standard shape or spacing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08D5 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Sad |
| 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 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08d5 |