U+08B8 "ࢸ" Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ࢸ
Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+08B8 "ࢸ" Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above is a supplementary Arabic letter used primarily in some West African languages, such as Hausa, to represent a specific sound that is distinct from the standard Arabic "teh" (ت). This character is formed by placing a small version of the letter "teh" (ت) above the base letter "teh" (ت) itself, indicating a palatalized or modified pronunciation. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and was added to the Unicode standard to support the accurate orthographic representation of languages that require this unique diacritic mark, ensuring proper digital text rendering and linguistic study.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+08B8
Name
Arabic Letter Teh with Small Teh Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ࢸ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࢸ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA2 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x08B8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000008B8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u08b8