U+FBB6 "﮶" Arabic Symbol Three Dots Above Unicode Character

U+FBB6 "﮶" Arabic Symbol Three Dots Above is a rarely used diacritical mark in the Arabic script, designed for specialized text annotation rather than standard orthography. It visually consists of three small dots arranged horizontally above a base character, and its primary application is in scholarly or pedagogical contexts, such as marking certain phonetic nuances, grammatical distinctions, or variant readings of classical texts. This symbol belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains a variety of supplementary Arabic marks that support advanced typesetting and historical document preservation. While not employed in everyday modern Arabic writing, it serves as a precise tool for editors and linguists who need to represent subtle textual features without altering the main script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBB6
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Three Dots Above
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 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBB6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBB6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbb6

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