U+065A "ٚ" Arabic Vowel Sign Small V Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+065A "ٚ" Arabic Vowel Sign Small V Above is a combining diacritical mark used in Arabic script to represent a specific vocalic nuance, primarily in scholarly or orthographic transcriptions of the Quran or in linguistic notation. It appears as a small v-shaped symbol placed above an Arabic letter, indicating a short vowel sound that is distinct from the standard fatha, kasra, or damma, often corresponding to a variant pronunciation or an imitation of a particular reading tradition. This mark is part of the extended Arabic diacritical system and is typically employed in specialized texts rather than in everyday written Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+065A |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Arabic Vowel Sign Small V 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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x065A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000065A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u065a |