U+FE81 "ﺁ" Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form Unicode Character
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U+FE81 "ﺁ" Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter alef combined with a madda diacritic, specifically designed for use in cursive script contexts. This character represents the long vowel sound "ā" in Arabic, often appearing at the beginning of words to indicate a glottal stop followed by prolonged vowel articulation, and it is classified under the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block to accommodate positional shaping in typography. Its isolated form is employed when the letter stands alone or at the end of a connected sequence without ligatures, ensuring correct visual alignment in text rendering.
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Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Final Form
General Properties
Code Point
U+FE81
Name
Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Isolate Arabic Maddah on Alef
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺁ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺁ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE81
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE81
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe81
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic