U+08E6 "ࣦ" Arabic Curly Kasra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣦ
U+08E6 "ࣦ" Arabic Curly Kasra is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to represent the short vowel /i/ with a distinctive curly or looped shape beneath the base letter. This character belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block, which contains additional signs for specialized Quranic and scholarly notation, and it functions similarly to the standard Arabic kasra but with a stylized appearance often found in certain calligraphic traditions or pedagogical contexts. Unlike regular diacritics, the curly kasra may emphasize readability or aesthetic preference in specific typesets, serving as a typographic variant rather than a distinct phonetic requirement in standard Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08E6 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Curly Kasra |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08e6 |