U+FBBE "﮾" Arabic Symbol Two Dots Vertically Below Unicode Character

U+FBBE "﮾" Arabic Symbol Two Dots Vertically Below is a reserved typographic or pedagogical diacritic used in the Arabic script, representing a mark of two dots stacked vertically and placed beneath a base letter. It is part of the Unicode standard's Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains glyph variants and specialized symbols for precise text rendering. This character is typically not used in standard written Arabic or common digital text, but rather in educational materials, scholarly works, or calligraphic contexts to indicate a specific pronunciation or diacritical distinction, such as for illustrating historical or phonetic nuances. Its encoding ensures that such specialized notation can be accurately represented and displayed across digital platforms and documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBBE
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Two Dots Vertically 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 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBBE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBBE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbbe

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