U+065B "ٛ" Arabic Vowel Sign Inverted Small V Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+065B "ٛ" Arabic Vowel Sign Inverted Small V Above is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to represent the phonetic vowel sound /u/, functioning as a variant of the standard ḍammah. Placed above a base Arabic letter, it indicates a short vowel pronunciation but is rarely employed in Modern Standard Arabic, appearing instead in certain historical or pedagogical contexts, such as Quranic recitation or linguistic transcription systems, where its distinct shape, resembling an inverted small letter "v", helps clarify pronunciation alongside other vowel signs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+065B |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Arabic Vowel Sign Inverted 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x065B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000065B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u065b |