U+08FC "ࣼ" Arabic Double Right Arrowhead Above with Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08FC "ࣼ" Arabic Double Right Arrowhead Above with Dot is a diacritical mark used in certain Arabic script orthographies, particularly for extended Quranic or pedagogical notations. It appears as a small dot placed below a pair of rightward-pointing arrowhead shapes situated above a base Arabic letter. This mark functions to indicate a specific phonetic or contextual modification, such as a doubling or a particular vowel quality, and is part of the Arabic Extended-B block designed to support scholarly and liturgical texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation of specialized manuscripts where such precise annotations are required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08FC |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Double Right Arrowhead Above with Dot |
| 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08fc |