What ࣳ means
Put it after the letter it marks. Arabic reads right to left on screen, but in the stored text sequence a combining mark follows its base letter. A 2009 Unicode discussion explains that the older spacing small waw could disconnect a word when placed inside it.
Use it as Qur'anic annotation, attached to the letter it marks.
What vowel does it mark in Qur'anic text?
It gives the u vowel extra length. A damma marks the shorter u; in Qur'anic reading, this sign typically cues the longer sound.
A printed Qur'an edition from around 1986 shows the mark in use. A separate proposal for Classical Persian and Urdu vowel marks in Arabic script assigns the same glyph a long-o reading; that reading belongs to the proposal's orthography.
Specialist and devotional: it belongs in marked Qur'anic text.
The damma marks short u; in Qur'anic use, this sign marks a longer one.
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Who writes ࣳ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Will every font place this mark the same way?
No. Unicode's 2018 report on Arabic mark rendering documents shaping engines that reorder or stack combining marks differently; check the text in the font and editor that will display it.
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How to type or find ࣳ
- Search it as
- small waw mark · Arabic combining mark · Quran long u mark · damma · long vowel mark · Qur'anic diacritic · Urdu long o mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ࣳ\08F3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.