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A small circle above a letter, marking no vowel.
Also known as: Jazm, Arabic vowelless mark, Sukoon, Small circle above a letter
The sukun says a consonant carries no vowel — it is the absence of a sound written as a mark. That makes it the mirror of the vowel diacritics: they add, and it subtracts, which is why it cannot simply be omitted along with them without changing the reading.
Denotes that an Arabic consonant carries no following vowel.
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Marks an absence rather than a sound, which is what distinguishes it from the fatha, kasra and damma it is written alongside.
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Is drawn as a small circle or as a small head-of-kha shape depending on the typographic tradition, both being the same mark.
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A small open circle, or a small hook resembling the head of the letter kha, placed directly above an Arabic letter.