U+08B9 "" Arabic Letter Reh with Small Noon Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+08B9 "" Arabic Letter Reh with Small Noon Above is a specialized grapheme within the Arabic script block, designed to represent a specific phonetic variant or dialectal sound. This character consists of the standard Arabic letter "reh" (ر) with a small noon glyph placed above it, indicating a nasalized pronunciation or a distinct consonantal value often found in African languages such as Hausa or certain Central Asian dialects that extend the Arabic alphabet. Its encoding in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately reproduce this rare letter for linguistic documentation, religious texts, or cultural communication, preserving the orthographic precision needed for languages where such diacritical combinations carry semantic importance.

General Properties

Code Point
U+08B9
Name
Arabic Letter Reh with Small Noon Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ࢹ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࢹ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA2 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x08B9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000008B9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u08b9