U+08FE "ࣾ" Arabic Damma with Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࣾ
U+08FE "ࣾ" Arabic Damma with Dot is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically within extended Quranic or pedagogical orthographies, to modify the vowel sound represented by the standard Damma. It consists of the Arabic Damma sign, a small loop indicating the short vowel /u/, with an additional dot placed beneath it, which serves to denote a nuanced or emphatic pronunciation, often in contexts like Quranic recitation or phonetic transcription where a more precise articulation of the vowel is required. This character helps distinguish subtle phonetic variations in certain traditional or scholarly texts, ensuring accuracy in the reading and interpretation of written Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08FE |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Arabic Damma 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08FE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08fe |