U+08FF "ࣿ" Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna Unicode Character
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U+08FF "ࣿ" Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna is a rare diacritical mark used in certain Arabic scripts to indicate a nasalization or ghunna sound, specifically associated with a reinterpreted or sideways rendering of the Arabic letter noon. This mark appears above or alongside Arabic consonants to denote a prolonged nasal resonance, often in Quranic or pedagogical contexts where precise phonetic articulation is important. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that specialized religious or linguistic texts can be accurately represented in digital form, preserving the distinct sound values that traditional Arabic orthography sometimes requires.
General Properties
Code Point
U+08FF
Name
Arabic Mark Sideways Noon Ghunna
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ࣿ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࣿ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA3 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x08FF
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000008FF
C/C++/Java Escape
\u08ff
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic