U+FE88 "ﺈ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FE88 "ﺈ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter alef combined with a hamza diacritic placed below it, specifically designed for the final position of a word in a cursive, connected Arabic script. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, where it serves to represent the contextual glyph shape that appears when the letter takes its final form, ensuring proper typographic rendering in text where aesthetic continuity of the script is important. It is distinct from the generic Unicode character for alef with hamza below, as it encodes a specific positional variant typically used in legacy systems or complex text layout applications to maintain correct visual alignment at the end of a word.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﺈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﺈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBA 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFE88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FE88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufe88 |
Unicode Properties