U+08CA "࣊" Arabic Small High Farsi Yeh Unicode Character

U+08CA "࣊" Arabic Small High Farsi Yeh is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to represent a superscript or "high" form of the Farsi Yeh (the letter yeh as used in Persian). It appears above the baseline of a base character to indicate a short, high vowel sound or a grammatical modification depending on the language, primarily found in certain Quranic orthographies and African languages like Hausa or Fulani that extend the Arabic alphabet. This character belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block, where it serves as a non-joining, combining mark that does not alter the underlying consonant but adds phonetic nuance, particularly in contexts where the standard Arabic yeh would conflict with Persian vowel conventions.