U+0624 "ؤ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ؤ
Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+0624 "ؤ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above is a specific letter in the Arabic script that combines the consonant waw with a hamza diacritic placed above it, representing the glottal stop sound in certain contexts. This character is used in Arabic orthography to denote the hamza when it follows a vowel associated with the waw, functioning as a seat for the glottal stop in word formations such as in the word "مُؤَذِّن" (muadhdhin) meaning muezzin. Unlike the standalone hamza, the waw with hamza above serves as a distinct glyph essential for accurate phonetic representation and is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent digital text rendering across platforms.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0624
Name
Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above
Unicode 1.0 Name
Arabic Letter Hamzah on Waw

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ؤ
HTML Hex Encoding
ؤ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD8 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0624
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000624
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0624