U+0677 "ٷ" Arabic Letter U with Hamza Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0677 "ٷ" Arabic Letter U with Hamza Above is a rare and specialized glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically for the representation of a "U" vowel sound combined with a hamza, which indicates a glottal stop. This character is primarily employed in certain orthographies of the Arabic language or in transliteration contexts where a precise phonetic distinction is needed, though it is not commonly found in standard modern Arabic writing. It forms part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is included in Unicode to support scholarly, historical, or linguistic documentation, ensuring that the full range of diacritic combinations used in various Islamic or Arabic text traditions can be accurately encoded digitally.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0677 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter U with Hamza Above |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter High Hamzah Waw with Dammah |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ۇ" U+06C7 Arabic Letter U "ٴ" U+0674 Arabic Letter High Hamza |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ٷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ٷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD9 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0677 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000677 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0677 |