U+06D8 "ۘ" Arabic Small High Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ۘ
U+06D8 "ۘ" Arabic Small High Meem Initial Form is a diacritical mark used in certain Arabic script contexts, particularly in the orthography of the Quran and other religious texts, where it indicates a specific phonetic variation or a prolonged nasalization of the consonant meem when it appears at the beginning of a syllable. It is a small, superscript form of the Arabic letter meem, typically placed above the baseline to modify the pronunciation of the preceding or following letter without forming a full character in the text. This character is part of the Arabic block in Unicode and serves as a specialized notation for advanced recitation rules in Tajweed, ensuring precise articulation in liturgical reading.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06D8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Meem Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06d8 |