What ﮴ means
It shows Arabic letter dots by themselves.
Arabic ijam dots distinguish consonants that share a letter shape; this spacing symbol lets a lesson show their placement without a letter base.
How do manuscript dots differ?
They are reading marks, not this symbol.
Early Qur’anic manuscripts used colored dots as reading aids: single dots marked short vowels, while two stacked dots marked tanwīn, the final n-sound on a noun. A 9th-century fragment shows two red dots for tanwīn.
Teaching notation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions 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.
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How to type or find ﮴
- Search it as
- Arabic ijam dots · two dots above Arabic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
﮴CSS
\FBB4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
﮴
HTML hex
﮴
CSS content
content: "\FBB4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%AE%B4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.