U+FBB9 "﮹" Arabic Symbol Three Dots Pointing Downwards Below Unicode Character

U+FBB9 "﮹" Arabic Symbol Three Dots Pointing Downwards Below is primarily used in Arabic textual contexts as a diacritical or annotation mark, representing three dots arranged in a downward-pointing triangular formation and positioned beneath a base letter. This character is part of the Unicode block dedicated to Arabic Presentation Forms-A, which contains various contextual glyph shapes and symbols intended to reflect the rich calligraphic and orthographic traditions of the Arabic script. Its specific typographic purpose is to serve as a phonetic or grammatical diacritic in certain scholarly, pedagogical, or religious texts, often indicating a subtle pronunciation detail or a textual variant, though it is not a standard component of everyday Arabic writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBB9
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Three Dots Pointing Downwards 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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBB9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBB9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbb9

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