Unicode Character "ﻉ" (U+FEC9)

The character ﻉ (Arabic Letter Ain Isolated Form) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FEC9. 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 ﻉ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Arabic Letter Ain Isolated Form
Unicode Codepoint U+FEC9
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+FEC9 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﻉ
HTML (hex) ﻉ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BB%89
CSS \00FEC9
JavaScript, JSON \uFEC9
C, C++, Java \uFEC9
Python \uFEC9
Rust \u{FEC9}
Ruby \uFEC9

How to type "ﻉ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F E C 9. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F E C 9. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBB 0x89
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFEC9
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FEC9

References