U+FE8C "ﺌ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FE8C "ﺌ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic character Yeh (ي) combined with the Hamza diacritic (ء), specifically designed for use in the medial position of a word where it connects to preceding and following letters in cursive Arabic script. This glyph represents a contextual variant required for proper text rendering in sophisticated typographic systems, as Arabic letters change shape depending on their position within a word. The character is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block (U+FE70–U+FEFF) to support legacy text rendering and precise control over letter shaping, though modern Unicode usage typically relies on the standard Yeh with Hamza above (U+0626) and relies on font shaping engines to produce the appropriate isolated, initial, medial, or final forms automatically.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﺌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﺌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBA 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFE8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FE8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufe8c |
Unicode Properties