U+08F4 "ࣴ" Arabic Fatha with Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣴ
U+08F4 "ࣴ" Arabic Fatha with Ring is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script to indicate a specific variant of the short vowel sound /a/, where a small ring is placed above or attached to the standard fatha sign, primarily occurring in certain Quranic or scholarly orthographic traditions to denote a more precise or elongated pronunciation of the vowel. This character belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and is intended for specialized religious or linguistic texts rather than everyday writing, serving to enhance the phonetic accuracy of the script by distinguishing this nuanced articulation from the regular fatha.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08F4 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Fatha with Ring |
| 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 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08f4 |