U+08F5 "ࣵ" Arabic Fatha with Dot Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08F5 "ࣵ" Arabic Fatha with Dot Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the extended Arabic script, primarily for specialized orthographies or Quranic notation. This character modifies the standard Arabic fatha, a short vowel sign indicating an /a/ sound, by adding a dot above it to convey a specific phonetic nuance or variant pronunciation, often found in certain traditional or pedagogical texts. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital representations of these nuanced Arabic writings remain accurate and interoperable across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08F5 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Fatha with Dot 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 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08f5 |