U+0654 "ٔ" Arabic Hamza Above Unicode Character

U+0654 "ٔ" Arabic Hamza Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Arabic script to indicate the glottal stop sound, known as hamza, when it appears above a letter such as alif, waw, or ya. It is typically placed atop a base character to modify its pronunciation, and in the standard Arabic writing system, it often appears in words like “مسألة” to denote a hamza that is not part of the base letter's inherent form. This character is distinct from the standalone hamza (U+0621) and is essential for accurate orthography in Arabic and other languages that use the Arabic script, such as Urdu and Persian.