U+FE87 "ﺇ" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FE87 "ﺇ" 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.
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Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Final Form
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
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
ﺇ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE87
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE87
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe87
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic