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

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+08B8 "" 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.

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