U+FE89 "ﺉ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FE89 "ﺉ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Yeh (ي) combined with a Hamza diacritic placed above it, specifically designed for the isolated position in Arabic text. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is typically used in ligature contexts to ensure proper visual rendering and spacing, representing the same phonetic value as the standard Unicode character U+0626 (ئ) which signifies the glottal stop or a yah sound with a hamza in Arabic orthography. In digital typography, this form helps maintain consistent shaping and legibility when the letter appears alone.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE89
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah on Ya
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺉ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE89
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE89
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe89

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	"ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh 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