U+08CD "࣍" Arabic Small High Zah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+08CD "࣍" Arabic Small High Zah is a combining diacritical mark used in the extended Arabic script, primarily for Quranic and religious orthography to denote specific phonetic or grammatical features, such as indicating a subtle emphatic or whispered articulation called "zah" in certain recitation traditions. It appears above Arabic base letters to modify their pronunciation, and its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation of classical texts where precise vowel and consonantal nuances must be preserved.
General Properties
Code Point
U+08CD
Name
Arabic Small High Zah
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
࣍
HTML Hex Encoding
࣍
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA3 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x08CD
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000008CD
C/C++/Java Escape
\u08cd
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic