U+08D9 "ࣙ" Arabic Small Low Noon with Kasra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08D9 "ࣙ" Arabic Small Low Noon with Kasra is a specialized diacritical mark used in the extended Arabic script for precise phonetic transcription, particularly in Quranic notation or pedagogical contexts. It represents a small low noon letter combined with a kasra, a vowel sign indicating the short vowel "i," placed below the base Arabic text to guide pronunciation. This character is part of the Unicode Arabic Extended-A block and is distinct from standard Arabic letters, serving to denote a specific phonetic nuance, such as a nasalized or lightly pronounced noon sound, in religious or linguistic materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08D9 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small Low 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 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08d9 |