U+FEA3 "ﺣ" Arabic Letter Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﺣ
U+FEA3 "ﺣ" Arabic Letter Hah Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter 'ḥāʾ' (ح) used specifically at the beginning of a word, where it connects to the following letter on its left side. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and represents a cursive variant that appears when the character starts a word in connected Arabic script, such as in words like 'حِسَاب' (ḥisāb, meaning "account"). Its shape resembles a small, open upward curve with a notch, distinct from the isolated form (U+062D ح) and other positional forms, ensuring proper typographic rendering in right-to-left text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEA3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Hah Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Haa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufea3 |
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 |