U+FE81 "ﺁ" Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FE81 "ﺁ" Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter alef combined with a madda diacritic, specifically designed for use in cursive script contexts. This character represents the long vowel sound "ā" in Arabic, often appearing at the beginning of words to indicate a glottal stop followed by prolonged vowel articulation, and it is classified under the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block to accommodate positional shaping in typography. Its isolated form is employed when the letter stands alone or at the end of a connected sequence without ligatures, ensuring correct visual alignment in text rendering.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE81
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Maddah on Alef
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"آ" U+0622 Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺁ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺁ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE81
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe81

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	"آ" U+0622 Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above
NFKC Simple Casefold	"آ" U+0622 Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above
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