U+0623 "أ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Unicode Character
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U+0623 "أ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above is a specific glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a glottal stop that is often the initial sound in words beginning with a vowel. This character is formed by combining the base letter alef, which indicates a long vowel or a carrier for hamza, with a small hamza diacritic placed above it to mark the glottal stop articulation. It is a standard character in the Arabic alphabet used in languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, and it appears in common words like "أم" meaning mother and "أكل" meaning eat.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+0623
Name
Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above
Unicode 1.0 Name
Arabic Letter Hamzah on Alef
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
أ
HTML Hex Encoding
أ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xD8 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0623
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000623
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0623
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Arabic