What ࣪ means
It marks a short high tone on a Rohingya vowel sign.
Rohingya writers call it the upper Harbay dot. It sits outside the vowel sign: above it when the vowel sign is written above the letter. The matching lower form sits below a vowel sign written below; the vowel sign supplies the vowel, and the dot supplies tone.
Unicode groups it with Rohingya’s two-dot and loop tone marks, apart from Quranic annotation signs. This is a spelling convention for Rohingya Arabic, not a general Arabic vowel sign.
How did Rohingya tone marks cross scripts?
A Rohingya-language textbook dates the first Rohingya writing system using Arabic script to 1650. The adaptation gave readers a written cue for a tone contrast carried in speech; these marks guide pronunciation rather than decorate letters.
The same textbook dates the introduction of a separate script, Hanifi, to 1983, as a response to reading problems in Arabic-script Rohingya. Unicode’s Hanifi Rohingya proposal calls a corresponding short high-tone sign “Harbahay,” showing that the tone notation has a counterpart in that script.
A specialist spelling mark for Rohingya writing, not a casual chat reaction.
Don’t use it in place of a vowel sign; it marks tone, not the vowel.
Who writes ࣪
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Don't confuse it with
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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 ࣪
- Also called
- Hārbāy · Harbāy · Harbahay
- Search it as
- Rohingya tone mark · Rohingya Arabic · Arabic diacritic · Arabic tone dot
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
࣪\08EACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.