U+08FA "ࣺ" Arabic Right Arrowhead Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣺ
U+08FA "ࣺ" Arabic Right Arrowhead Below is a combining diacritical mark used in Arabic script, specifically within the extended Arabic range of Unicode, to represent a phonetic or orthographic feature in certain languages or scholarly transcriptions. This character appears as a small arrowhead shape positioned below a base Arabic letter, and its function is to indicate a specific vowel quality, consonant modification, or a directional hint in Quranic recitation or linguistic notation, often related to the articulation or phonetic emphasis of the letter it accompanies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08FA |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Right 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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08fa |