Which marks does this remove?

It removes every Arabic combining diacritic: the short vowels fatha, damma and kasra, the tanwin (double-vowel nunation marks), sukun, shadda, the superscript dagger alef, and the Quranic annotation signs. Base letters and their connections are left completely intact.

Does it change or break the base letters?

No. Only combining diacritic code points are deleted. The consonantal skeleton — alef, baa, taa and so on — is untouched, so the result is the normal unvowelled Arabic spelling people read every day.

What is tatweel and why is it optional?

Tatweel (also called kashida) is the stretching character `ـ` used to elongate letters for justification or calligraphic effect. It is not a vowel mark, so removing it is offered as a separate toggle in case you want to keep the original spacing.

Why would I remove harakat?

Fully vocalised text is useful for learners and recitation, but most digital Arabic — search queries, file names, body copy, database keys — is written unvowelled. Stripping the marks normalises text for matching, indexing, or a cleaner reading layout.

Is the text uploaded anywhere?

No. All processing happens locally in your browser using a Unicode character filter. The text you paste never leaves your device.

Arabic Harakat Remover

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Clean, unvowelled Arabic in one step

Vocalised Arabic packs short vowels and other marks above and below the letters. That is essential for teaching, recitation, and disambiguation, but it gets in the way when you need plain text for search, matching, or a tidy layout. This tool deletes every diacritic and hands back the bare consonantal spelling.

How it works

Arabic diacritics live in well-defined Unicode ranges, separate from the base letters. The tool runs your text through a character filter that matches those combining marks and removes them:

U+064B..U+065F  fatha, damma, kasra, tanwin, shadda, sukun, …
U+0610..U+061A  Quranic annotation signs
U+0670          superscript (dagger) alef
U+06D6..U+06ED  Quranic small high/low marks

Because only these combining code points are targeted, the base letters and their joining behaviour are preserved exactly. A separate toggle removes the tatweel character ـ, which is a justification glyph rather than a vowel mark.

Tips and notes

If you are normalising text for fuzzy matching or de-duplication, stripping harakat is usually the right first step, and you may also want to remove tatweel so that stretched and unstretched spellings collapse to the same form. The removed-marks counter tells you at a glance how heavily vocalised the source was. For the reverse workflow — checking whether a fully vowelled document has any gaps — use the Harakat Completeness Checker.