What ࣓ means
It fills in a vowel left unwritten. In tajweed (Qur’anic recitation rules), small waw is a madd sign (a lengthening mark) held for two counts.
A Qur’an manuscript from the late eighth or ninth century shows red miniature alif (ا) and waw (و) signs, during the shift from red vowel dots to small letters. Unicode accepted this low combining form in 2016 from Libyan al-Dani/Qaloon examples.
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
- small waw · Qur’anic small waw · madd sign · tajweed waw · Qaloon waw · Arabic vowel mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
࣓CSS
\08D3How to type small low waw
Use a Unicode picker or input method; enter U08D3 after the Arabic letter it modifies.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
࣓
HTML hex
࣓
CSS content
content: "\08D3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%A3%93
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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.