Unicode Character "آ" U+0622 Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above

Unicode Version 15.1

آ

Summary

The unicode character "آ" at code point U+0622 is Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above. It is a character in the Arabic block and is part of the Arabic script. The character is an other letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "آ" is 0xD8 0xA2 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x0622.

General Properties

Code Point U+0622
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Alef with Madda Above
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Letter Maddah on Alef
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
"ٓ" U+0653 Arabic Maddah Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding آ
HTML Hex Encoding آ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD8 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0622
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000622
C/C++/Java Escape \u0622

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Expands On NFD Yes
Expands On NKFD Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Right Joining
Joining Group Alef
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter