U+08A9 "" Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Dot Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+08A9 "" Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Dot Above is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in certain orthographies for African languages, such as Fulfulde, to represent a voiced palatal approximant or a specific consonant sound distinct from the standard Arabic Yeh. The diacritical marks, with two dots below the base letter and a single dot above, modify the basic Yeh to indicate a phonetic nuance essential for accurately transcribing languages that require more precise graphemes than those available in traditional Arabic script. This character falls within the Extended Arabic-A block and enables clearer linguistic representation, particularly in texts where distinguishing between similar sounds is critical for comprehension and proper pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point
U+08A9
Name
Arabic Letter Yeh with Two Dots Below and Dot Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ࢩ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࢩ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA2 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x08A9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000008A9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u08a9