U+08E4 "ࣤ" Arabic Curly Fatha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣤ
U+08E4 "ࣤ" Arabic Curly Fatha is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script to indicate a variant of the standard fatha vowel sign, distinguished by its curly or looped shape rather than the typical oblique stroke. It appears in certain extended Arabic orthographies, particularly in historical or religious texts, to denote a specific phonetic nuance or a non-standard pronunciation of the short vowel /a/. The character is classified in the Unicode standard under the Arabic Extended-A block, where it serves specialized scholarly and typographic purposes rather than everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08E4 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Curly Fatha |
| 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 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08E4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008E4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08e4 |