U+FE88 "" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FE88 "" Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter alef combined with a hamza diacritic placed below it, specifically designed for the final position of a word in a cursive, connected Arabic script. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, where it serves to represent the contextual glyph shape that appears when the letter takes its final form, ensuring proper typographic rendering in text where aesthetic continuity of the script is important. It is distinct from the generic Unicode character for alef with hamza below, as it encodes a specific positional variant typically used in legacy systems or complex text layout applications to maintain correct visual alignment at the end of a word.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FE88
Name
Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Final Arabic Hamzah Under Alef

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺈ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺈ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE88
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE88
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe88