U+065F "ٟ" Arabic Wavy Hamza Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+065F "ٟ" Arabic Wavy Hamza Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to sit beneath a base letter to modify its phonetic value. In certain traditions of Arabic orthography, particularly for the Quran or other precise textual notations, this wavy hamza indicates a specific glottal stop or vocalic nuance distinct from the standard hamza. It is rare in modern everyday writing but can appear in scholarly or liturgical contexts to ensure accurate pronunciation, especially in languages like Arabic or other scripts that employ Arabic diacritics for extended phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+065F |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Arabic Wavy Hamza 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 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x065F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000065F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u065f |