U+FBC0 "﯀" Arabic Symbol Small Tah Above Unicode Character

U+FBC0 "﯀" Arabic Symbol Small Tah Above is a typographic mark used in certain Arabic script contexts, specifically as a diacritic or annotation symbol placed above a base letter to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic function. It represents a small form of the Arabic letter "tah" (ت) and is employed in specialized Koranic or scholarly texts to denote a subtle pronunciation nuance, such as an implied or slight [t] sound, often related to rules of recitation or historical spelling variations. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains a range of such symbols designed for precise textual rendering, though its actual usage remains highly limited to specific manuscript traditions or digital representations of classical Arabic works.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBC0
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Small Tah 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 0xAF 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBC0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBC0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbc0

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