U+08D8 "ࣘ" Arabic Small High Noon with Kasra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08D8 "ࣘ" Arabic Small High Noon with Kasra is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script for specialized orthographic and Qur’anic recitation contexts, representing a small noon letter positioned above the baseline combined with a kasra diacritic that indicates a short i vowel. It is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and serves as a phonetic or orthographic guide in texts where precise pronunciation is necessary, particularly in certain Quranic manuscripts or linguistic transcriptions. This character helps readers correctly articulate the noon sound while accounting for the kasra vowel, ensuring accurate recitation or transliteration in scholarly and liturgical works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08D8 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Noon with Kasra |
| 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08d8 |