U+FB21 "ﬡ" Hebrew Letter Wide Alef Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB21 "ﬡ" Hebrew Letter Wide Alef is a presentation form of the Hebrew letter Alef, specifically designed for use in certain typographic contexts where a wider, more expansive glyph is required, often to improve visual alignment or aesthetic balance in blocks of Hebrew text. This character falls within the Unicode block for Alphabetic Presentation Forms, which contains variant glyphs and ligatures for various scripts. Its primary function is not to represent a distinct phonetic or linguistic value, but rather to serve as a stylistic alternative to the standard Alef, appearing in specialized typesetting scenarios such as in some printed religious texts or decorative headings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB21 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Wide Alef |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "א" U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb21 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Hebrew Letter |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "א" U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "א" U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef |
| Script | Hebrew |
| Script Extensions | Hebrew |
| 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 | Hebrew Letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |