ﺇ is the Unicode character ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW ISOLATED FORM, code point U+FE87 (decimal 65159) in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ﺇ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EF BA 87.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+FE87 |
| Decimal | 65159 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EF BA 87 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | FE87 |
| UTF-32 | 0000FE87 |
| HTML decimal | ﺇ |
| HTML hex | ﺇ |
| CSS | \FE87 |
| JavaScript | \uFE87 |
| JSON | \uFE87 |
| Python | \uFE87 |
| Python by name | \N{ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW ISOLATED FORM} |
| Java, C# | \uFE87 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{FE87} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uFE87 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EF%BA%87 |
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 | ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW ISOLATED FORM |
| Code point | U+FE87 (decimal 65159) |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70–U+FEFF) |
| General category | Lo: Other letter |
| Script | Arabic |
| Bidirectional class | AL: Right-to-left (Arabic) |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW ISOLATED FORM has a compatibility decomposition (isolated) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in Arabic Presentation Forms-B
- ﹿ U+FE7F Arabic Sukun Medial Form
- ﺀ U+FE80 Arabic Letter Hamza Isolated Form
- ﺁ U+FE81 Arabic Letter Alef With Madda Above Isolated Form
- ﺂ U+FE82 Arabic Letter Alef With Madda Above Final Form
- ﺃ U+FE83 Arabic Letter Alef With Hamza Above Isolated Form
- ﺄ U+FE84 Arabic Letter Alef With Hamza Above Final Form
- ﺅ U+FE85 Arabic Letter Waw With Hamza Above Isolated Form
- ﺆ U+FE86 Arabic Letter Waw With Hamza Above Final Form
- ﺈ U+FE88 Arabic Letter Alef With Hamza Below Final Form
- ﺉ U+FE89 Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Isolated Form
- ﺊ U+FE8A Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Final Form
- ﺋ U+FE8B Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form
- ﺌ U+FE8C Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Medial Form
- ﺍ U+FE8D Arabic Letter Alef Isolated Form
- ﺎ U+FE8E Arabic Letter Alef Final Form
- ﺏ U+FE8F Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form
All 141 characters: Arabic Presentation Forms-B.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ﺇ?
- Use ﺇ (decimal) or ﺇ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+FE87?
- EF BA 87 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EF%BA%87.
- How do I write U+FE87 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uFE87. Python: \uFE87.
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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