U+087E "" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Left Ring Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+087E "" Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Left Ring is a specialized typographic variant of the Arabic letter alef, designed to represent a specific phonetic or orthographic nuance in certain historical or scholarly Arabic writing systems. This character features a diacritical fatha sign attached to the top right of the alef stroke, combined with a distinct left ring mark, which may indicate a particular vowel quality or a contextual pronunciation rule not captured by standard Arabic script. It is part of the Arabic Extended-B block in Unicode, which was introduced to support rare or archaic forms used in manuscripts and linguistic transcriptions, ensuring accurate digital representation of diverse textual traditions.

General Properties

Code Point
U+087E
Name
Arabic Letter Alef with Attached Top Right Fatha and Left Ring

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ࡾ
HTML Hex Encoding
ࡾ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA1 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x087E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000087E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u087e