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U+0653 · ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE

Arabic Maddah Above

  • CodepointU+0653
  • NameARABIC MADDAH ABOVE
  • Decimal1619
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptInherited
  • CategoryMn — Nonspacing Mark
  • Unicode version3.0 (1999)
  • Bidi classNSM — Nonspacing Mark
  • Combining class230 — Above
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0653 (◌ٓ) is ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE, a non-spacing combining mark in the Arabic block. Its script is Inherited: it takes on the script of the character it attaches to. It was added in Unicode 3.0 (1999).

As a combining mark it has no advance width of its own and attaches to the preceding base character. Type or paste the base letter first, then this mark. Its canonical combining class is 230 (Above), which normalization uses to order stacked marks. See combining diacritical marks.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D9 932 bytes
UTF-1606531 code unit
UTF-32000006534 bytes
HTML decimalٓ
HTML hexٓ
CSS\653in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0653
JSON\u0653
Python\u0653
Python\N{ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE}by name
Java / C#\u0653
C / C++\u0653universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{653}
Go\u0653
Ruby\u0653
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1619)
URL-encoded%D9%93percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0303◌̃Combining Tilde U+0342◌͂Combining Greek Perispomeni
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Characters built on ◌ٓ

U+0622آArabic Letter Alef with Madda Above
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+064D◌ٍArabic Kasratan U+064E◌َArabic Fatha U+064F◌ُArabic Damma U+0650◌ِArabic Kasra U+0651◌ّArabic Shadda U+0652◌ْArabic Sukun U+0654◌ٔArabic Hamza Above U+0655◌ٕArabic Hamza Below U+0656◌ٖArabic Subscript Alef U+0657◌ٗArabic Inverted Damma U+0658◌٘Arabic Mark Noon Ghunna U+0659◌ٙArabic Zwarakay