U+0616 "ؖ" Arabic Small High Ligature Alef with Lam with Yeh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ؖ
U+0616 "ؖ" Arabic Small High Ligature Alef with Lam with Yeh is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in the Quranic orthography tradition to represent a complex ligature combining the letters alef, lam, and yeh in a compact elevated form. It appears as a small superscript element above the baseline, functioning as a phonetic or orthographic marker in certain recitation contexts, though its usage is rare and largely confined to scholarly or religious texts. This character is encoded in the Unicode Arabic block and serves as an example of how the standard accommodates historical and liturgical writing conventions within the Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0616 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Ligature Alef with Lam with Yeh |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
| Alias | ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH YEH BARREE (correction) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0616 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000616 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0616 |