U+08B3 "ࢳ" Arabic Letter Ain with Three Dots Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+08B3 "ࢳ" Arabic Letter Ain with Three Dots Below is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily for writing certain African languages, such as the Fulani and Hausa languages, where it represents a voiced velar or uvular sound distinct from the standard Arabic letter "Ain". Its design combines the basic shape of the Arabic letter "Ain" with three dots placed below the character to indicate this unique phonetic value, enabling accurate transcription of non-Arabic phonemes in extended Arabic-based orthographies. This character falls within the Unicode block for Arabic Extended-A, which was added to support additional letters needed for minority languages across the Islamic world.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+08B3
Name
Arabic Letter Ain with Three Dots Below
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ࢳ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࢳ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA2 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding
0x08B3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000008B3
C/C++/Java Escape
\u08b3
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic