U+087F "ࡿ" Arabic Letter Alef with Right Middle Stroke and Left Ring Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+087F "ࡿ" Arabic Letter Alef with Right Middle Stroke and Left Ring is a specialized typographic variant of the Arabic letter alef, encoded for historical and orthographic use within certain manuscript traditions, particularly those associated with the Arabic script's extended forms for representing early or dialectal phonetic distinctions. The character features a distinctive right middle stroke along the vertical stem, combined with a small left ring attached near the base, which visually differentiates it from the standard alef. It is included in the Arabic Extended C block of Unicode and is intended primarily for scholarly text processing and the digital preservation of rare script variants, rather than for modern standard Arabic writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+087F
Version Added 14.0
Name Arabic Letter Alef with Right Middle Stroke and Left Ring
Block Arabic Extended-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ࡿ
HTML Hex Encoding ࡿ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA1 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x087F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000087F
C/C++/Java Escape \u087f

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 Alef
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