U+06E5 "ۥ" Arabic Small Waw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06E5 "ۥ" Arabic Small Waw is a diacritical mark used in Arabic script, specifically representing a superscript or small form of the letter waw. It primarily functions as a phonetic indicator in certain Arabic dialects and Quranic notation, often denoting a longer vowel sound or syllabic adjustment without being a full letter. This character is not typically used in standard modern Arabic writing but appears in specialized contexts like religious texts or linguistic transcriptions to guide pronunciation, and it is encoded in the Unicode block for Arabic to ensure proper representation in digital typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06E5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small Waw |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06e5 |