U+0616 "ؖ" Arabic Small High Ligature Alef with Lam with Yeh Unicode Character

U+0616 "ؖ" Arabic Small High Ligature Alef with Lam with Yeh is a specialized Arabic script character used primarily in the Quranic orthography tradition to represent a complex ligature combining the letters alef, lam, and yeh in a compact elevated form. It appears as a small superscript element above the baseline, functioning as a phonetic or orthographic marker in certain recitation contexts, though its usage is rare and largely confined to scholarly or religious texts. This character is encoded in the Unicode Arabic block and serves as an example of how the standard accommodates historical and liturgical writing conventions within the Arabic script.