What ۟ means
Leave the marked letter unspoken. It marks an extra Arabic letter—alif, wāw, or yā—kept in Qur’anic spelling but omitted in recitation, whether reading continues or stops.
Qur’an copies from the 600s show scattered letter dots; recitation marks developed in layers. A 2024 comparison found different placements: Indonesian editions use the mark with alif, while Madinah editions also use it with wāw and yā.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why might Word fail to join a pause sign after ۟?
In September 2023, the SIL Fonts user community reported Word 365 for Windows could fail to join a following pause mark after ۟; browsers worked.
How to type ۟
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 06DF, 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 rounded zero”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 06df, then Enter or Space.
HTML
۟CSS
\06DFUnicode input
Place ۟ after the Arabic letter it marks; it is a combining sign.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
۟
HTML hex
۟
CSS content
content: "\06DF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%DB%9F
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.