U+FE87 "ﺇ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FE87 "ﺇ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter alef combined with a hamza diacritic placed beneath it, specifically designed for the isolated position within a word. This form is used in Arabic script to represent the glottal stop sound when it occurs at the beginning of a word or syllable, with the hamza below indicating a specific phonetic context, often for proper spelling and readability in connected text. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block of Unicode, which standardizes contextual shapes for different positions in cursive script, ensuring accurate representation in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE87
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah Under Alef
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"إ" U+0625 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺇ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE87
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE87
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe87

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	"إ" U+0625 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below
NFKC Simple Casefold	"إ" U+0625 Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below
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