U+08F7 "ࣷ" Arabic Left Arrowhead Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣷ
U+08F7 "ࣷ" Arabic Left Arrowhead Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to indicate a phonetic feature or textual annotation, such as an alternative vowel, a correction, or a grammatical marker in certain scholarly or Quranic contexts. Appearing as a small left-pointing arrowhead placed above an Arabic base character, it belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and is primarily employed in specialized orthographies, including those for the Berber languages or in the notation of classical Arabic texts, where it modifies the reading of the letter without altering its inherent consonant value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08F7 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Left Arrowhead 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 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08f7 |