U+0624 "ؤ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0624 "ؤ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above is a specific letter in the Arabic script that combines the consonant waw with a hamza diacritic placed above it, representing the glottal stop sound in certain contexts. This character is used in Arabic orthography to denote the hamza when it follows a vowel associated with the waw, functioning as a seat for the glottal stop in word formations such as in the word "مُؤَذِّن" (muadhdhin) meaning muezzin. Unlike the standalone hamza, the waw with hamza above serves as a distinct glyph essential for accurate phonetic representation and is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent digital text rendering across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0624 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Hamzah on Waw |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw "ٔ" U+0654 Arabic Hamza Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ؤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ؤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0624 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000624 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0624 |