U+0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE

The Unicode character U+0653, officially named ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE, was introduced in Unicode version 3.0. It is part of the Arabic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Nonspacing Mark, this character typically falls under the Zinh script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.