ARABIC SUKUN

Property Value
Codepoint U+0652
Literal Character ْ
Name ARABIC SUKUN
Sketch
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Control Character no
Block Arabic
Subblock Control character
UTF-8 byte encoding d9 92
UTF-16 byte encoding 06 52 (big endian)
HTML Entity ْ
Perl string literal \x{652}
Comments
  • marks absence of a vowel after the base consonant
  • used in some Qurans to mark a long vowel as ignored
  • can have a variety of shapes, including a circular one and a shape that looks like '06E1'
See Also U+06E1: arabic small high dotless head of khah