U+FE87 "" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FE87 "" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter alef combined with a hamza diacritic placed beneath it, specifically designed for the isolated position within a word. This form is used in Arabic script to represent the glottal stop sound when it occurs at the beginning of a word or syllable, with the hamza below indicating a specific phonetic context, often for proper spelling and readability in connected text. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block of Unicode, which standardizes contextual shapes for different positions in cursive script, ensuring accurate representation in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FE87
Name
Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah Under Alef

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺇ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺇ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE87
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE87
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe87