U+0672 "ٲ" Arabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0672 "ٲ" Arabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Above is a variant of the Arabic letter alef, distinguished by a wavy hamza diacritic placed above it rather than the standard hamza shape. This character is used primarily in certain Arabic orthographic traditions, particularly in the Quranic or classical writing systems, to represent a specific phonetic nuance or to indicate a glottal stop with a particular vocalic quality, often associated with the Hamzat al-Wasl (connecting hamza) in careful recitation. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this specialized glyph is preserved for accurate textual representation in digital contexts, supporting scholarly, religious, and linguistic work that requires precise Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0672 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Wavy Hamzah on Alef |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ٲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ٲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0672 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000672 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0672 |