U+FE80 "ﺀ" Arabic Letter Hamza Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FE80 "ﺀ" Arabic Letter Hamza Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic glottal stop character known as Hamza, specifically designed to appear in its standalone or isolated shape without connecting to adjacent letters. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and serves as a stylistic variant used in certain contexts, such as for calligraphic precision or when displaying the Hamza in its most basic form outside of a word. Its code point U+FE80 ensures that typographers and digital text systems can represent this specific visual variant, which is distinct from the generic Arabic Hamza encoded at U+0621, primarily to preserve the visual integrity of the character in complex text layouts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE80
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Hamza Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ء" U+0621 Arabic Letter Hamza

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺀ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺀ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE80
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE80
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe80

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ء" U+0621 Arabic Letter Hamza
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ء" U+0621 Arabic Letter Hamza
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