U+0674 "ٴ" Arabic Letter High Hamza Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ٴ
Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+0674 "ٴ" Arabic Letter High Hamza is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, primarily in the writing systems of certain languages like Kazakh and Urdu, to indicate a glottal stop or a specific vowel quality distinct from the standard Arabic hamza. It appears as a small superscript version of the hamza character, positioned above the baseline, and is encoded separately to facilitate proper text rendering and linguistic precision in digital environments. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the accurate representation of orthographic conventions where this elevated form is necessary, often serving to differentiate phonetic nuances in loanwords or native vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point
U+0674
Name
Arabic Letter High Hamza
Unicode 1.0 Name
Arabic Letter High Hamzah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ٴ
HTML Hex Encoding
ٴ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0674
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000674
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0674