U+FE83 "" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FE83 "" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter that represents a glottal stop, specifically a hamza carried by an alef, used in various Arabic words and dialects. This isolated form appears in certain typographic contexts, such as in Arabic script rendering for text that requires precise shaping of the letter, and it is encoded separately from the basic Arabic letters to support different positional forms like initial, medial, final, and isolated. It is commonly employed in the beginning of words or syllables to indicate a stressed glottal sound, as seen in vocabulary derived from Arabic, Persian, and other languages that use the Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FE83
Name
Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah on Alef

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺃ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺃ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE83
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE83
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe83