Unicode Character "ﺃ" (U+FE83)

The character ﺃ (Arabic Letter Alef With Hamza Above Isolated Form) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FE83. It is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ﺃ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Arabic Letter Alef With Hamza Above Isolated Form
Unicode Codepoint U+FE83
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Arabic Letter (AL)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Arabic
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FE83 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﺃ
HTML (hex) ﺃ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BA%83
CSS \00FE83
JavaScript, JSON \uFE83
C, C++, Java \uFE83
Python \uFE83
Rust \u{FE83}
Ruby \uFE83

How to type "ﺃ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F E 8 3. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F E 8 3. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ﺃ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ﺃ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ﺃ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBA 0x83
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFE83
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FE83

References