U+FE85 "ﺅ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE85 "ﺅ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter waw combined with a hamza diacritic placed above it, used in specific contexts within Arabic script to represent the glottal stop sound followed by the vowel "u". This particular glyph is the isolated form, meaning it appears when the letter stands alone or at the end of a word without connecting to a following letter. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, which encodes variant shapes for proper typographic rendering in printed and digital Arabic text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE85 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah on Waw |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ؤ" U+0624 Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe85 |
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 | "ؤ" U+0624 Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ؤ" U+0624 Arabic Letter Waw 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 |