U+08E9 "ࣩ" Arabic Curly Kasratan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣩ
U+08E9 "ࣩ" Arabic Curly Kasratan is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script, specifically an alternative form of the standard kasratan (the double kasra indicating nunation with an i sound). It is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and was added to Unicode to support certain Quranic and pedagogical texts where a curly or rounded shape is preferred for clarity or orthographic tradition. This character is placed below an Arabic letter to denote the inflectional ending -in, and its curly appearance distinguishes it from the straight or angled versions found in other writing styles, aiding in precise textual rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08E9 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Curly Kasratan |
| 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08e9 |