אָ is the Unicode character HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH QAMATS, code point U+FB2F (decimal 64303) in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write אָ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EF AC AF.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+FB2F |
| Decimal | 64303 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EF AC AF |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | FB2F |
| UTF-32 | 0000FB2F |
| HTML decimal | אָ |
| HTML hex | אָ |
| CSS | \FB2F |
| JavaScript | \uFB2F |
| JSON | \uFB2F |
| Python | \uFB2F |
| Python by name | \N{HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH QAMATS} |
| Java, C# | \uFB2F |
| Rust, Swift | \u{FB2F} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uFB2F |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EF%AC%AF |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH QAMATS |
| Code point | U+FB2F (decimal 64303) |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms (U+FB00–U+FB4F) |
| General category | Lo: Other letter |
| Script | Hebrew |
| Bidirectional class | R: Right-to-left |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH QAMATS is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+FB2F. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Nearby in Alphabetic Presentation Forms
- ﬧ U+FB27 Hebrew Letter Wide Resh
- ﬨ U+FB28 Hebrew Letter Wide Tav
- ﬩ U+FB29 Hebrew Letter Alternative Plus Sign
- שׁ U+FB2A Hebrew Letter Shin With Shin Dot
- שׂ U+FB2B Hebrew Letter Shin With Sin Dot
- שּׁ U+FB2C Hebrew Letter Shin With Dagesh And Shin Dot
- שּׂ U+FB2D Hebrew Letter Shin With Dagesh And Sin Dot
- אַ U+FB2E Hebrew Letter Alef With Patah
- אּ U+FB30 Hebrew Letter Alef With Mapiq
- בּ U+FB31 Hebrew Letter Bet With Dagesh
- גּ U+FB32 Hebrew Letter Gimel With Dagesh
- דּ U+FB33 Hebrew Letter Dalet With Dagesh
- הּ U+FB34 Hebrew Letter He With Mapiq
- וּ U+FB35 Hebrew Letter Vav With Dagesh
- זּ U+FB36 Hebrew Letter Zayin With Dagesh
- טּ U+FB38 Hebrew Letter Tet With Dagesh
All 58 characters: Alphabetic Presentation Forms.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for אָ?
- Use אָ (decimal) or אָ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+FB2F?
- EF AC AF (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EF%AC%AF.
- How do I write U+FB2F in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uFB2F. Python: \uFB2F.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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