U+FE89 "ﺉ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FE89 "ﺉ" Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Yeh (ي) combined with a Hamza diacritic placed above it, specifically designed for the isolated position in Arabic text. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is typically used in ligature contexts to ensure proper visual rendering and spacing, representing the same phonetic value as the standard Unicode character U+0626 (ئ) which signifies the glottal stop or a yah sound with a hamza in Arabic orthography. In digital typography, this form helps maintain consistent shaping and legibility when the letter appears alone.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+FE89
Name
Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Isolate Arabic Hamzah on Ya
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺉ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺉ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE89
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE89
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe89
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic