U+08B7 "ࢷ" Arabic Letter Peh with Small Meem Above Unicode Character

U+08B7 "ࢷ" Arabic Letter Peh with Small Meem Above is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in certain languages of West Africa, such as Hausa or Fula, where it represents a labialized or bilabial sound, typically a [p] or [ɓ] variant, with the small meem above indicating a nasal or labial quality. This character is part of the Arabic Extended-B block and was added to the Unicode standard to support the accurate orthographic representation of African languages that adapt the Arabic script for their phonetic needs. It appears in the context of the Ajami tradition, where the Arabic script is extended with additional diacritics and letters to write non-Arabic sounds, helping preserve linguistic diversity in historic manuscripts and modern digital text.