U+08EB "࣫" Arabic Tone Two Dots Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend