Unicode Character "ﺋ" U+FE8B Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form

Unicode Version 15.1

Summary

The unicode character "ﺋ" at code point U+FE8B is Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form. It is a character in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is part of the Arabic script. The character is an other letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "ﺋ" is 0xEF 0xBA 0x8B and the UTF-16 encoding is 0xFE8B.

General Properties

Code Point U+FE8B
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Initial Arabic Hamzah on Ya
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Initial
Decomposition Mapping "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺋ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFE8B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FE8B
C/C++/Java Escape \ufe8b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Expands On NKFD Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
NFKC Simple Casefold "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
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