U+06DC "ۜ" Arabic Small High Seen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ۜ
U+06DC "ۜ" Arabic Small High Seen is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script to indicate a specific phonetic or orthographic feature, typically representing a small, superscript variant of the letter Seen (س). It appears above a base letter to denote a subtle pronunciation change, often in Quranic or scholarly texts, such as signaling a prolonged or emphasized sound. Unlike standalone letters, this character functions as a combining mark that modifies the base character's reading without altering its core identity, aiding in precise recitation or linguistic annotation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Seen |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06dc |