U+FBC1 "﯁" Arabic Symbol Small Tah Below Unicode Character

U+FBC1 "﯁" Arabic Symbol Small Tah Below is a special typographic mark used in certain advanced Arabic script contexts, particularly for Quranic notation and scholarly text annotation. This character represents a small version of the Arabic letter Tah placed beneath a base character, functioning as a diacritical or phonetic marker to indicate a specific pronunciation or grammatical nuance, such as a subtle stop or emphasis, in classical or liturgical recitation. It belongs to the Unicode block for Arabic Presentation Forms-A, which includes characters designed for compatibility with legacy encoding standards and precise manuscript rendering, yet it is rarely encountered in modern digital text outside of specialized religious or linguistic publications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBC1
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Small Tah 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 0xAF 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBC1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBC1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbc1

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