U+0883 "ࢃ" Arabic Tatweel with Overstruck Hamza Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0883 "ࢃ" Arabic Tatweel with Overstruck Hamza is a specialized typographic mark used in Arabic script, primarily for extending the shape of a character (like a standard tatweel or kashida) while incorporating a hamza symbol positioned over the elongation stroke. This character is not a regular letter but rather a diacritic-like extension used in certain historical or calligraphic contexts to indicate a glottal stop or to represent a specific phonetic nuance within decorative or traditional writing. It belongs to the Arabic Extended-B block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to support less common variants and orthographic features of the Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0883 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Arabic Tatweel with Overstruck Hamza |
| Block | Arabic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࢃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࢃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA2 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0883 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000883 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0883 |