U+10EFC "" Arabic Combining Alef Overlay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+10EFC "" Arabic Combining Alef Overlay is a diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to modify base letters by overlaying an alef character. This combining mark is part of the Arabic Extended-C block and is intended for historical or specialized orthographic contexts where a superscript or overlay alef indicates a long vowel or a grammatical feature, such as in certain Quranic texts or old manuscripts. It attaches directly to the preceding Arabic letter, altering its pronunciation or meaning without affecting the shaping of the base character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10EFC |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Arabic Combining Alef Overlay |
| Block | Arabic Extended-C |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐻼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐻼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xBB 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD803 0xDEFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010EFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud803\udefc |