U+FBBA "﮺" Arabic Symbol Four Dots Above Unicode Character

U+FBBA "﮺" Arabic Symbol Four Dots Above is a rare typographic mark used in certain historical or specialized Arabic script contexts, where it appears as a diacritical sign consisting of four small dots arranged in a square or diamond shape positioned above a base letter. This symbol is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, which was designed to accommodate legacy and variant forms of Arabic letters for compatibility with older text encoding standards. Its primary function is to modify or clarify the pronunciation of a consonant in Quranic recitation or in scholarly annotations, though it is not commonly found in modern standard Arabic writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBBA
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Four 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 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBBA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBBA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbba

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