U+08D6 "ࣖ" Arabic Small High Ain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣖ
U+08D6 "ࣖ" Arabic Small High Ain is a combining diacritical mark used in certain extended Arabic orthographies, particularly for the representation of the Quranic text and in some African languages like Hausa and Fulfulde. It appears as a small, raised version of the Arabic letter 'ain (ع), and its primary function is to indicate a pharyngeal fricative sound or a specific phonetic nuance, often serving as a vowel modifier or a marker for a syllable boundary. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is designed to be placed above or below base characters, ensuring precise transliteration and recitation in religious and linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08D6 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Ain |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08d6 |