What ٝ means
ٝ is the arabic reversed damma. Unicode classifies it as a combining mark, drawn on top of the character before it and files it in the Arabic block; this site shelves it under Middle East scripts.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
ٝ is a single code point, U065D. In HTML that is ٝ, and in CSS \065D.
Part of the collection
Who writes ٝ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ٝ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ٝ
- Search it as
- reversed damma · Arabic vowel mark · Ajami vowel · Wolofal damma · ulta pesh
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ٝCSS
\065DUnicode-aware text editor
Place ٝ immediately after the Arabic-script letter whose vowel it marks. To show it alone, enter a dotted-circle placeholder () first; that gives the mark a base.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ٝ
HTML hex
ٝ
CSS content
content: "\065D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D9%9D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.