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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend