U+08DE "ࣞ" Arabic Small High Word Qif Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣞ
U+08DE "ࣞ" Arabic Small High Word Qif is a diacritical mark used in certain Arabic script traditions to represent a specific annotation or abbreviation within the text. It appears as a small, superscript glyph resembling a raised form of the Arabic letter "qaf," and its primary function is to serve as a shorthand notation, often indicating the imperative or prohibitive command "Qif" meaning "stop" or "pause" in Quranic recitation or marginal glosses. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block, designed for specialized scholarly and religious contexts where precise textual cues are necessary for correct reading or interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08DE |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Word Qif |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08de |