U+08F8 "ࣸ" Arabic Right Arrowhead Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣸ
U+08F8 "ࣸ" Arabic Right Arrowhead Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically within the extended Arabic block. It appears as a small rightward pointing arrowhead placed above a base Arabic letter, and its primary function is to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic modification in certain languages or scholarly transcriptions, such as representing a particular vowel quality or a secondary articulation. This character is part of the Unicode Standard to support the accurate digital representation of specialized Arabic texts, including those for historical or linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08F8 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Right 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08f8 |