U+0654 "ٔ" Arabic Hamza Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0654 "ٔ" Arabic Hamza Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to indicate the glottal stop sound, known as hamza, when it appears above a letter such as alif, waw, or ya. It is typically placed atop a base character to modify its pronunciation, and in the standard Arabic writing system, it often appears in words like “مسألة” to denote a hamza that is not part of the base letter's inherent form. This character is distinct from the standalone hamza (U+0621) and is essential for accurate orthography in Arabic and other languages that use the Arabic script, such as Urdu and Persian.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0654 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Arabic Hamza Above |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ٔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ٔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0654 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000654 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0654 |