What ۦ means
It marks a recited sound the Qur’anic consonant spelling leaves out.
The consonant spelling is called the rasm. In بِهِۦ, ۦ follows the pronoun ending هِ and marks madd al-silah, a connected extension; the extra madd sign in ۦٓ marks its longer form.
A late eighth- or ninth-century Qur’an manuscript preserves miniature letters that mark recited sounds. A 2022 comparison records different ۦ placements among mushaf traditions, or written Qur’an editions.
A Qur’anic recitation mark; formal and script-specific.
ۦ and ۧ have different forms and placements.
Who writes ۦ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ۦ 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 ۦ
- Search it as
- small yeh in Quran · small ya in Quran · madd al-silah · rasm
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ۦ\06E6Codes and encoding1 code points
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