U+087E "ࡾ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Left Ring Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+087E "ࡾ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Left Ring is a specialized typographic variant of the Arabic letter alef, designed to represent a specific phonetic or orthographic nuance in certain historical or scholarly Arabic writing systems. This character features a diacritical fatha sign attached to the top right of the alef stroke, combined with a distinct left ring mark, which may indicate a particular vowel quality or a contextual pronunciation rule not captured by standard Arabic script. It is part of the Arabic Extended-B block in Unicode, which was introduced to support rare or archaic forms used in manuscripts and linguistic transcriptions, ensuring accurate digital representation of diverse textual traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+087E |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Left Ring |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x087E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000087E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u087e |