What ࣭ means
It marks the short-high tone. Har bay modifies the vowel, not its consonant. The dot sits outside the vowel sign; alone, it can resemble a consonant dot.
A 2010 Unicode proposal records over 200 years of Arabic-script Rohingya writing. Modern Rohingya Fonna added signs for sounds Arabic alone could not represent. Its two-dot and loop marks denote long-falling and long-rising tones.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1How does Rohingyalish mark har bay?
An acute accent on the vowel marks this tone.
How to type ࣭
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 08ED, 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 tone one dot below”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 08ed, then Enter or Space.
HTML
࣭CSS
\08EDCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
࣭
HTML hex
࣭
CSS content
content: "\08ED";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%A3%AD
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On screen
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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.
