U+0625 "إ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0625 "إ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below is a distinct glyph in the Arabic script that represents the glottal stop sound, known as hamza, positioned beneath the letter alef, which is one of the primary long vowel carriers in Arabic. This character is used in the writing system of Arabic and other languages that employ the Arabic script, such as Persian and Urdu, to indicate a glottal stop at the beginning of a syllable or word, often appearing in contexts where the hamza is placed below the alef rather than above it, as in the word "إنسان" meaning "human." It is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent digital representation across platforms and systems, preserving the orthographic nuances of written Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0625 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Letter Hamzah Under Alef |
| Block | Arabic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef "ٕ" U+0655 Arabic Hamza Below |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | إ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | إ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD8 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0625 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000625 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0625 |