U+FEA1 "ﺡ" Arabic Letter Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEA1 "ﺡ" Arabic Letter Hah Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter Hah, which represents the voiceless pharyngeal fricative sound /ħ/ similar to a deep "h" in English but produced in the throat. This specific isolated form is used when the letter stands alone or at the end of a word without being connected to a following letter, as Arabic script is cursive and letters change shape depending on their position in a word. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which includes contextual glyph variants to support proper rendering in texts like the Quran or formal documents. While modern digital fonts typically handle these forms automatically through Unicode normalization and shaping engines, U+FEA1 provides a fixed representation for environments that require explicit character codes for this specific shape.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEA1
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Hah Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Haa
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺡ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺡ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEA1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEA1
C/C++/Java Escape \ufea1

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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