U+FE84 "ﺄ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Final Form Unicode Character

U+FE84 "ﺄ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter alef with a hamza diacritic placed above it, specifically designed for use in the final position of a word during typographic rendering. It represents the glotal stop combined with a long vowel sound, commonly transcribed as "ʔa" or similar, and appears in Arabic script when the letter is connected to a preceding character but has no letter following it. This variant ensures proper shaping and legibility in complex text layouts, particularly in systems requiring contextual glyph selection for cursive scripts like Arabic.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE84
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Final Arabic Hamzah 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	"أ" U+0623 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺄ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺄ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE84
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE84
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe84

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	"أ" U+0623 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above
NFKC Simple Casefold	"أ" U+0623 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza 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