U+08E0 "࣠" Arabic Small High Footnote Marker Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࣠
U+08E0 "࣠" Arabic Small High Footnote Marker is a combining diacritical mark used in specific Arabic script contexts, primarily within the extended Arabic block intended for Quranic and scholarly annotations. This small, superscript-style symbol is placed above or adjacent to a base Arabic letter to indicate a footnote reference or an editorial note in religious or academic texts, particularly in older manuscript traditions where marginal commentary needed a precise visual link to the main text. It functions as a typographic convention that helps readers identify and cross-reference supplementary explanations without disrupting the flow of the primary written content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08E0 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Footnote Marker |
| 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 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08e0 |