U+06E1 "ۡ" Arabic Small High Dotless Head of Khah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06E1 "ۡ" Arabic Small High Dotless Head of Khah is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script to indicate the absence of a vowel sound, specifically functioning as a sukūn, which denotes that a consonant is not followed by a vowel. Its name refers to its visual resemblance to the upper part of the Arabic letter khah (خ) but without the dot, and it is typically placed above a base character in a small, elevated form. This mark is part of the Arabic Extended-A block and is employed in precise Quranic and scholarly texts where unambiguous phonetic notation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06E1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Dotless Head of Khah |
| 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06e1 |