U+06E5 ARABIC SMALL WAW

The Unicode character U+06E5, officially named ARABIC SMALL WAW, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Arabic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Modifier Letter, this character typically falls under the Arabic 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 Arabic Letter character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.