U+0657 "ٗ" Arabic Inverted Damma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0657 "ٗ" Arabic Inverted Damma is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to indicate a specific phonetic variant of the short vowel /u/, typically representing a more rounded or back quality than the standard damma. It appears as a small, inverted teardrop or comma-shaped glyph placed above a base letter, and it is employed in certain scholarly texts, Quranic recitation notations, and regional orthographic conventions to clarify vowel pronunciation or distinguish between similar-sounding words. Unlike the regular damma, this inverted form is less common and is considered a specialized mark for advanced or precise vocalization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0657 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Arabic Inverted Damma |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0657 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000657 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0657 |