What ؗ means
It allows a pause, but favors continuing.
A 2006 Unicode proposal records this mark in Iranian Qur’ans as pause-allowed, continuation-preferred guidance.
A 2025 study traces Qur’anic pausal notation from manuscript dot clusters into signs and letters used to teach recitation.
Is ؗ an Arabic letter?
No. It guides recitation, not pronunciation.
It sits above a base letter (the letter it attaches to), marking a pause rather than a sound in the word.
As of 2026, if Arabic small high zain is not showing, the font or app may mishandle Arabic combining marks; try one that supports Arabic text layout.
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
- waqf mark · Quran pause
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ؗ\0617Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.