U+10EFB "" Arabic Small Low Noon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10EFB "" Arabic Small Low Noon is a historic typographic glyph used in specific contexts of the Arabic script, particularly for representing the letter noon in a small, low position to indicate grammatical or orthographic variations in classical or Qur'anic texts. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Arabic Extended-C block, which encompasses a range of rare and specialized Arabic characters that are not commonly found in modern digital fonts or contemporary writing systems. This character serves as a precise notation for scholars and philologists studying early Arabic manuscripts, helping to preserve the exact textual features and pronunciation cues of historical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10EFB |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Arabic Small Low Noon |
| Block | Arabic Extended-C |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐻻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐻻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBB 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDEFB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010EFB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udefb |