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A pointer to a note below.
Also known as: Hashiyah mark
The Arabic mark referring the reader from the text to a note at the foot of the page.
Refers the reader from a point in the text to a note at the foot of the page.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The marginal commentary tradition in Arabic scholarship is old and dense enough that the reference apparatus was encoded as characters rather than left to superscript numerals.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A small compact figure set above the line at the point referred from, matching a mark repeated beside the note below.