ARABIC SUKUN

Codepoint
U+0652
Literal Character
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Name
ARABIC SUKUN
Sketch
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Control Character
no
Block
Arabic
Subblock
Tashkil from ISO 8859-6
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