U+08EB "࣫" Arabic Tone Two Dots Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08EB "࣫" Arabic Tone Two Dots Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to represent a specific tone or phonetic nuance, primarily in Quranic recitation and scholarly texts for languages such as Arabic, and occasionally for other languages that employ the Arabic script. It appears as two small dots placed above a base letter, and its purpose is to modify the pronunciation of that letter by indicating a tonal contour or emphasis distinct from other diacritics, contributing to the precise oral rendering of religious or classical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08EB |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Tone Two Dots Above |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08eb |