U+06D5 "ە" Arabic Letter Ae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+06D5 "ە" Arabic Letter Ae is a distinct letter in the Arabic script, primarily used in the Uyghur language to represent the vowel sound /e/ or /æ/. It is often referred to as "Yā' Hamza" or "Uyghur E" and appears in the final or isolated form of certain words, where it functions as a vowel rather than a consonant. This character differs from the standard Arabic letter "Heh" (U+0647) as it lacks the initial and medial forms, making it unique to the orthographies of languages like Uyghur and occasionally Kurdish. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation for writing systems that rely on this specific character.

General Properties

Code Point U+06D5
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ae
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ە
HTML Hex Encoding ە
UTF-8 Encoding 0xDB 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x06D5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000006D5
C/C++/Java Escape \u06d5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Teh Marbuta
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter