U+08E3 "ࣣ" Arabic Turned Damma Below Unicode Character
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U+08E3 "ࣣ" Arabic Turned Damma Below is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to represent a specific phonetic nuance, particularly in Quranic orthography and certain scholarly textual traditions. Unlike the standard Arabic damma, which indicates the short vowel "u" and is placed above a letter, this turned version is positioned below the base character to denote a variant pronunciation, often associated with a subtle glottal or rounding quality in certain recitation styles. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-A block and is intended for precise annotation in specialized liturgical or linguistic contexts, ensuring accurate representation of oral transmission in written form.
General Properties
Code Point
U+08E3
Name
Arabic Turned Damma Below
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ࣣ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࣣ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA3 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding
0x08E3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000008E3
C/C++/Java Escape
\u08e3
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic