U+08FB "ࣻ" Arabic Double Right Arrowhead Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+08FB "ࣻ" Arabic Double Right Arrowhead Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically designed for certain extended Arabic or Quranic orthographies. It appears as two small right-pointing arrowheads placed above a base Arabic letter, functioning as a phonetic or vowel sign to indicate a specific pronunciation or articulatory feature, such as a long vowel or a glide. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-A block, which includes additional marks for transcription of languages like African Arabic dialects or for historical and religious textual accuracy. Its usage is highly specialized and uncommon in standard Arabic writing, primarily found in scholarly or liturgical contexts where precise phonetic notation is required.

General Properties

Code Point U+08FB
Version Added 6.1
Name Arabic Double 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 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x08FB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000008FB
C/C++/Java Escape \u08fb

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend