What ࣠ means
It links a Quran verse to an explanatory note in the margin.
An ayah is a verse of the Quran; the note is explanatory text printed outside the main passage.
Why can it appear in the wrong place?
It should sit above an Arabic letter.
This nonspacing mark needs a letter to attach to. Some fonts place it on the baseline or leave it detached when Arabic mark positioning fails.
Specialist Quranic mark for page annotation.
In ordinary chat, it reads as a page-note cue, not punctuation.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does ࣠ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ࣠
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 08E0, then Alt+X to get ࣠.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “arabic small high footnote marker”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 08e0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
࣠CSS
\08E0Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
࣠
HTML hex
࣠
CSS content
content: "\08E0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%A3%A0
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.