U+08F9 "ࣹ" Arabic Left Arrowhead Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣹ
U+08F9 "ࣹ" Arabic Left Arrowhead Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the extended Arabic script for the Quranic and scholarly notation of the Arabic language. It appears as a small leftward-pointing arrowhead positioned underneath a base Arabic letter, serving to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic feature, often related to vowel lengthening or precise pronunciation in texts that require detailed recitation rules. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is intended for use in specialized religious or linguistic contexts where such diacritics are necessary to convey subtle distinctions in sound or meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08F9 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Left Arrowhead 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 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08F9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08f9 |