U+0673 "ٳ" Arabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Below Unicode Character

U+0673 "ٳ" Arabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Below is a rare or historical variant of the Arabic letter alef, distinguished by a wavy hamza diacritic placed beneath it rather than above or above with a seat. This character is primarily used in certain orthographic traditions or transliteration systems to represent a specific phonetic nuance, often indicating a glottal stop or a particular vowel quality that differs from the standard alef. In modern standard Arabic, it is seldom encountered, but it may appear in scholarly texts, Quranic notation, or in the representation of older or regional dialects where the wavy hamza below modifies the pronunciation of the alef. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that such specialized textual needs are preserved for digital use.