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arabic small high ain

Arabic Small High Ain

ࣖ is a small raised mark in Qur’anic print that signals a boundary during recitation; it is not a word to sound out. Its layout varies by edition, so follow the reading key for the copy you are using.

Text symbol
Also called
ruku sign
Search it as
ruku · waqf · mushaf · Qur’an marker · Indo-Pak Qur’an
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ࣖ means

It marks where a ruku ends.

A ruku is a passage grouping for Qur’an recitation. A 2014 Pakistani proposal also associates this mark with a chapter’s end.

A 2026 comparison reports the mark alone in Bombay editions and with numbers in Karachi editions. It cites a Bombay Qur’an dated 1866 as part of the wider print history, not as this mark’s origin. As a combining mark, ࣖ attaches to nearby Arabic text; unsupported fonts may misplace or omit it.

Specialist Qur’anic reading notation, not ordinary punctuation.

Don't confuse it with

4
࣊
Arabic Small High Farsi Yeh
shares “arabic”, “high”, “small”
࣋
Arabic Small High Yeh Barree With Two Dots Below
shares “arabic”, “high”, “small”
࣌
Arabic Small High Word Sah
shares “arabic”, “high”, “small”
࣍
Arabic Small High Zah
shares “arabic”, “high”, “small”

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type ࣖ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 08D6, then Alt+X to get ࣖ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “arabic small high ain”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 08d6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ࣖ
CSS
\08D6
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ࣖ
HTML hex
ࣖ
CSS content
content: "\08D6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%A3%96
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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