U+065E "ٞ" Arabic Fatha with Two Dots Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+065E "ٞ" Arabic Fatha with Two Dots is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically within the Quranic orthography and certain scholarly texts to indicate a variant pronunciation or a specific grammatical nuance. It appears as a small, slanted fatha sign with two dots placed above it, serving to modify the inherent short vowel "a" sound. This mark is not employed in standard modern Arabic writing but is utilized in specialized contexts, such as in the notation of the Quran where it can denote a prolonged or heavy articulation of the fatha vowel, often in relation to the rules of tajweed or recitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+065E |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Arabic Fatha with Two Dots |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x065E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000065E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u065e |