U+08E3 "ࣣ" Arabic Turned Damma Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣣ
U+08E3 "ࣣ" Arabic Turned Damma Below is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to represent a specific phonetic nuance, particularly in Quranic orthography and certain scholarly textual traditions. Unlike the standard Arabic damma, which indicates the short vowel "u" and is placed above a letter, this turned version is positioned below the base character to denote a variant pronunciation, often associated with a subtle glottal or rounding quality in certain recitation styles. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and is intended for precise annotation in specialized liturgical or linguistic contexts, ensuring accurate representation of oral transmission in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08E3 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Arabic Turned Damma Below |
| Block | Arabic Extended-A |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࣣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࣣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA3 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08e3 |