Unicode Character "ﻳ" (U+FEF3)

The character ﻳ (Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FEF3. 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 ﻳ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Arabic Letter Yeh Initial Form
Unicode Codepoint U+FEF3
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+FEF3 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﻳ
HTML (hex) ﻳ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BB%B3
CSS \00FEF3
JavaScript, JSON \uFEF3
C, C++, Java \uFEF3
Python \uFEF3
Rust \u{FEF3}
Ruby \uFEF3

How to type "ﻳ"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBB 0xB3
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFEF3
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FEF3

References