U+06E2 "ۢ" Arabic Small High Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ۢ
U+06E2 "ۢ" Arabic Small High Meem Isolated Form is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically in the Quranic orthography known as ʾIʿrāb. It appears as a small meem placed above a base letter, functioning as a phonetic indicator to specify the pronunciation of a consonant, particularly in the context of nasalization or prolongation during recitation. Unlike the regular meem, this isolated form is not a full letter but a superscript glyph that modifies the sound of the character it accompanies, often denoting a subtle nasal quality in classical Arabic reading traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06E2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small High Meem Isolated 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 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06e2 |