U+08FF "ࣿ" Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+08FF "ࣿ" Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna is a rare diacritical mark used in certain Arabic scripts to indicate a nasalization or ghunna sound, specifically associated with a reinterpreted or sideways rendering of the Arabic letter noon. This mark appears above or alongside Arabic consonants to denote a prolonged nasal resonance, often in Quranic or pedagogical contexts where precise phonetic articulation is important. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that specialized religious or linguistic texts can be accurately represented in digital form, preserving the distinct sound values that traditional Arabic orthography sometimes requires.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+08FF |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna |
| 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 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x08FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000008FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u08ff |