U+FBB3 "﮳" Arabic Symbol Dot Below Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBB3 "﮳" Arabic Symbol Dot Below is a special formatting mark used in Arabic script text processing rather than a standard letter for writing words. It is designed to modify the appearance of a preceding Arabic character by visually placing a small dot beneath it, often serving as a diacritical or pedagogical aid to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic variation. This symbol helps in precise transcription, teaching, or rendering of historical or dialectal forms where such a dot is required but where no standard combining diacritic exists. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is typically not found in ordinary running text but in specialized contexts like fonts, educational materials, or digital encoding for advanced typographic control.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBB3
Version Added 6.0
Name Arabic Symbol Dot Below
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Modifier Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮳
HTML Hex Encoding ﮳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBB3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBB3
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbb3

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other