U+065C "ٜ" Arabic Vowel Sign Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+065C "ٜ" Arabic Vowel Sign Dot Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, designed to appear beneath an Arabic letter to modify its pronunciation. It is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is primarily employed for specialized orthographic purposes, such as representing specific vowel sounds in linguistic transcriptions or in certain Quranic or pedagogical contexts where precise phonetic differentiation is required. This character is distinct from other Arabic dot diacritics because it signifies a vowel quality, as opposed to consonant pointing or grammatical markings, and it must be used in combination with a base Arabic letter to be visually and semantically complete.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+065C |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Arabic Vowel Sign Dot Below |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ٜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ٜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x065C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000065C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u065c |