U+064F "ُ" Arabic Damma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+064F "ُ" Arabic Damma is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to represent the short vowel sound /u/, similar to the "u" in the English word "put." It is placed above a consonant letter to indicate this vowel, and it plays a crucial role in the Arabic language for correct pronunciation and grammatical inflection, especially in formal or Classical Arabic. As an integral part of the Arabic writing system, the Damma helps distinguish word meanings and syntactic structures that would otherwise be ambiguous without vowel markers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+064F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Damma |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Dammah |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC31 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ُ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ُ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x064F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000064F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u064f |