U+06D9 "ۙ" Arabic Small High Lam Alef Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06D9 "ۙ" Arabic Small High Lam Alef is a diacritical mark used in certain Arabic script contexts, particularly in the orthography of the Quran and classical Islamic texts, to indicate a specific pronunciation or vowel quality. It appears as a small, raised combination of the Arabic letters lam and alef, placed above or adjacent to a base character, and is often employed in pedagogical or phonetic transcriptions to clarify grammatical or recitational rules. This character is part of the Arabic block in Unicode and is distinct from standard letter forms, serving as a non-spacing mark that modifies the sound of the preceding letter without altering the baseline text layout.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06D9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Lam Alef |
| 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 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06d9 |