U+FE8A "ﺊ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE8A "ﺊ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Final Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter Yeh, which is used only in specific contexts within Arabic script. It represents the letter in its final form, meaning it appears when the character is at the end of a word, and includes a hamza diacritic placed above it to indicate a glottal stop. This shape is distinct from other positional forms of the same base letter, such as the initial, medial, or isolated variants, and is encoded separately in Unicode to support precise textual rendering in cursive scripts like Arabic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE8A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic Hamzah on Ya |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| 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 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe8a |
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 |