U+0876 "ࡶ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Round Dot Above Unicode Character

U+0876 "ࡶ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Round Dot Above is a rarely used Arabic script letter included in the Unicode standard's Extended Arabic-A block. It represents a variant form of the Arabic letter alef combined with a diacritical mark consisting of a round dot attached directly above the character, rather than placed separately. This glyph is historically employed in certain Arabic-based orthographies, such as in early Quranic manuscripts or specific transliteration systems, where it indicates a particular phonetic nuance or a distinct vowel quality not captured by standard alef. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and display these specialized textual traditions for academic, religious, or linguistic purposes.