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U+0653 COMBINING MARK

ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE

Preview uses dotted circle base (◌) for visibility. Clipboard copy copies only the raw diacritic mark.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE
Code Point U+0653
Decimal Value 1619
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Arabic →
Script Inherited →
Unicode Version Unicode 3.0 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D9 93
UTF-16 Code Unit 0653
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000653
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 06 53 LE: 53 06
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 06 53 LE: 53 06 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ٓ
HTML Hexadecimal ٓ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000653
JavaScript (ES6) \u0653
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0653
JSON Escape \u0653
Python \u0653
PHP "\u{653}"
Java "\u0653"
C / C++ "\u0653"
Rust '\u{653}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D9%93

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 230 — Above (Acute, Grave, Tilde, etc.)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSM — Nonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0653 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
◌ٓ
Context: A ◌ٓ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
◌ٓ
Context: A ◌ٓ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
◌ٓ
Context: A ◌ٓ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
◌ٓ
Context: A ◌ٓ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0653

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