Unicode Character "ﺋ" (U+FE8B)

The character ﺋ (Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FE8B. 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 ﺋ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form
Unicode Codepoint U+FE8B
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+FE8B Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﺋ
HTML (hex) ﺋ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BA%8B
CSS \00FE8B
JavaScript, JSON \uFE8B
C, C++, Java \uFE8B
Python \uFE8B
Rust \u{FE8B}
Ruby \uFE8B

How to type "ﺋ"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBA 0x8B
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFE8B
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FE8B

References