U+FE82 "ﺂ" Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Final Form Unicode Character

U+FE82 "ﺂ" Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Final Form is a presentation form glyph used in Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting, representing the letter alef (ا) combined with a madda (ـٰ) diacritic, which indicates a long vowel sound or a glottal stop, specifically designed to appear at the end of a word. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which provides contextual shapes for letters to enable proper rendering in complex scripts, and its usage helps maintain visual consistency in traditional or formal Arabic typography, particularly in texts like the Quran or classical poetry, where precise orthographic representation is valued.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE82
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Final Arabic Maddah on Alef
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Final
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 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE82
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE82
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe82

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