U+08ED "࣭" Arabic Tone One Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
࣭
U+08ED "࣭" Arabic Tone One Dot Below is a combining diacritical mark used in extended Arabic script orthographies, particularly for certain African languages such as Hausa, Fulfulde, or other languages that require phonetic tone marking beyond standard Arabic. It appears as a single dot placed beneath a base Arabic letter to indicate a specific low or falling tone, distinguishing lexical or grammatical meaning in tonal languages. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block, added in Unicode version 6.1 to support specialized linguistic transcription and Quranic annotation needs, ensuring precise representation of tonal distinctions without altering the base character's shape.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08ED |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Tone One Dot Below |
| 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 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08ed |