U+FBB5 "﮵" Arabic Symbol Two Dots Below Unicode Character

U+FBB5 "﮵" Arabic Symbol Two Dots Below is a specialized typographic mark used within the Arabic script, distinct from standard letters or diacritics. It consists solely of two horizontally aligned dots placed beneath the baseline, and it functions as a formatting or annotation symbol rather than a phonetic marker. This character is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to support advanced text layout and precise graphical representation in orthographic or scholarly contexts, such as in Quranic notation or textual emendations, rather than any conventional Arabic word or sound.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBB5
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Two Dots 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 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBB5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBB5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbb5

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