U+06E6 "ۦ" Arabic Small Yeh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ۦ
U+06E6 "ۦ" Arabic Small Yeh is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, primarily in the Quranic orthography of the Uthmanic tradition, where it functions as an abbreviation marker. It typically appears above a letter to indicate the word "Yā" (يا) in the context of "Bismillah" and similar formulas, serving as a shorthand for the letter Yeh in certain codices. Unlike full Arabic letters, this character is a small subscript or superscript form, and its use is largely confined to religious and historical texts rather than modern standard Arabic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06E6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Small Yeh |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06e6 |