U+065D "ٝ" Arabic Reversed Damma Unicode Character

U+065D "ٝ" Arabic Reversed Damma is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically in certain Quranic or pedagogical contexts, to indicate a reversed or inverted version of the standard Damma vowel sign. Unlike the typical Damma, which represents the short vowel /u/ and appears as a small loop above a letter, the Reversed Damma is positioned below the letter and is commonly employed in the orthography of languages that use the Arabic script, such as in some traditions of writing the Quran or in Ottoman Turkish, to denote a specific phonetic value or to distinguish it from the standard vowel. Its primary function is to serve as a phonetic or orthographic variant, ensuring precise pronunciation in religious or scholarly texts.