Unicode Character "ﺍ" (U+FE8D)

The character ﺍ (Arabic Letter Alef Isolated Form) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FE8D. 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 ﺍ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Arabic Letter Alef Isolated Form
Unicode Codepoint U+FE8D
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+FE8D Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﺍ
HTML (hex) ﺍ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BA%8D
CSS \00FE8D
JavaScript, JSON \uFE8D
C, C++, Java \uFE8D
Python \uFE8D
Rust \u{FE8D}
Ruby \uFE8D

How to type "ﺍ"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBA 0x8D
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFE8D
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FE8D

References