U+08FD "ࣽ" Arabic Right Arrowhead Above with Dot Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+08FD "ࣽ" Arabic Right Arrowhead Above with Dot is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically within extended Quranic and scholarly notation. It appears as a small rightward-pointing arrowhead or wedge placed above a base Arabic letter, with a single dot located directly above the arrowhead’s tip. This character functions to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic variant, often modifying the pronunciation or grammatical role of the letter it accompanies, particularly in traditions of Quranic recitation or historical manuscript annotation. As part of the Arabic Extended-A block, it is intended for use in specialized text processing where precise representation of such diacritics is required for accurate rendering of classical Arabic or related languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+08FD
Version Added 6.1
Name Arabic 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 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x08FD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000008FD
C/C++/Java Escape \u08fd

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