U+06E9 "۩" Arabic Place of Sajdah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+06E9 "۩" Arabic Place of Sajdah is a typographic symbol used in Islamic texts to indicate a location where a prostration, or sujud, is performed during the recitation of the Quran. It resembles a stylized niche or mihrab, often depicted as an upward-pointing arrow or abstract geometric shape, and appears in digital and printed Quranic annotations to alert the reader to a specific verse requiring this act of worship. This character serves as a practical marker for religious observance within Arabic script, distinct from words or punctuation, facilitating consistency in ritual practice across various media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+06E9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Place of Sajdah |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ۩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ۩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDB 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x06E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000006E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u06e9 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Arabic |
| Script Extensions | Arabic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |