U+0881 "ࢁ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Right Hamza Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0881 "ࢁ" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Right Hamza is a specialized variant of the Arabic letter alef used primarily in certain orthographies and transliteration systems. It features a hamza (the glottal stop diacritic) attached to the right side of the alef, distinguishing it from the standard alef with hamza above or below. This character is not commonly used in mainstream Arabic script but serves in non-Arabic languages or scholarly contexts, such as representing specific phonological distinctions in Quranic recitation or regional dialects. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation of diverse writing traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0881 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Right Hamza |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0881 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000881 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0881 |