U+10EC5 "" Arabic Small Yeh Barree with Two Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10EC5 "" Arabic Small Yeh Barree with Two Dots Below is a specialized script symbol used in certain historical or orthographic contexts within the Arabic script tradition. It represents a variant of the letter "yeh" (a consonant or long vowel sound similar to 'y' or 'ī'), distinguished by its "barree" or tailed form and the two diacritical dots placed beneath it, which serve to alter or specify its phonetic value or function. This character is part of the Unicode Standard's support for extended Arabic script blocks, which aim to preserve and encode minority or archaic writing systems, and it is primarily of interest to scholars, linguists, and typographers working with rare or historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10EC5 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small Yeh Barree with Two Dots Below |
| Block | Arabic Extended-C |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐻅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐻅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBB 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDEC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010EC5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udec5 |