U+0676 "ٶ" Arabic Letter High Hamza Waw Unicode Character
U+0676 "ٶ" Arabic Letter High Hamza Waw is a specialized glyph used in the Arabic script primarily for the representation of the glottal stop (hamza) placed above the letter waw, but with a high or elevated positioning distinct from the standard hamza-waw combination. This character is employed in certain orthographic traditions, notably in the writing systems of some Central Asian languages like Kazakh, to indicate a specific phonetic nuance or to maintain a consistent typographic alignment within the text. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately render this variant hamza, which is crucial for proper representation and readability of words in those languages where the high hamza waw fulfills a distinct role in spelling and pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0676 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter High Hamza Waw |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter High Hamzah Waw |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw "ٴ" U+0674 Arabic Letter High Hamza |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ٶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ٶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0676 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000676 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0676 |