What is the Unicode codepoint for Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form?

Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form has the Unicode codepoint U+FE8B (decimal: 65163).

What is the UTF-8 encoding of Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form?

The UTF-8 encoding of Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form is EF BA 8B.

How do I use Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form in JavaScript?

In JavaScript, use the escape sequence \uFE8B or paste the character directly in a string.

What is the CSS escape for Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form?

The CSS escape for Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form is \FE8B. Use it in CSS content properties or selectors.

How do I write Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form in Python?

In Python, use the escape sequence \uFE8B inside a string literal.

What is the URL encoding for Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form?

The percent-encoded (URL encoded) form of Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form is %EF%BA%8B.

What Unicode block does Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form belong to?

Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B Unicode block.

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Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form

Q: What is the HTML entity for Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form?

The HTML entity for Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form is ﺋ (decimal: ﺋ, hex: ﺋ).

U+FE8B

BMP Unicode 1.1

Character ﺋ

Decimal ﺋ

Hex ﺋ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint: U+FE8B
Decimal: 65163
Plane: BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category: Other Letter (Lo)
Block: Arabic Presentation Forms-B
Script: Arabic
Bidi class: AL Arabic Letter (Right-to-Left)
East Asian Width: N Narrow
Properties: Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue

Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

ىٴ U+0649 U+0674

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Arabic Letter Yeh With Hamza Above Initial Form.

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Format	Value
HTML Decimal	`ﺋ` Decimal numeric character reference (&#decimal;).
HTML Hex	`ﺋ` Hexadecimal numeric character reference (&#xHex;).
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	`EF BA 8B` UTF-8 encoding as hex byte values. Most common on the web.
UTF-16 Hex Bytes	`FE 8B` Used internally by JavaScript, Java, and Windows.
UTF-32 Hex	`0000FE8B` Fixed-width: one codepoint = 4 bytes.
CSS Escape	`\FE8B` Use in CSS content property: content: "\XXXX"
JavaScript Escape	`\uFE8B` Use in JS strings: "\uXXXX" or template literals.
Python Escape	`\uFE8B` Use in Python strings: "\uXXXX" or "\UXXXXXXXX".
URL Encoded	`%EF%BA%8B` Percent-encoded for use in URLs.

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Normalization Forms

Unicode defines four normalization forms that affect how characters with diacritics, compatibility variants, and combining marks are represented. This character has a non-trivial normalization — the forms below differ from its codepoint. Mismatched normalization is the most common cause of failed string comparisons across systems.

NFKC

ئ U+0626

NFKD

ي U+064A ٔ U+0654

NFC = Canonical Decomposition then Canonical Composition (preferred for storage) · NFD = Canonical Decomposition · NFKC/NFKD = Compatibility forms (fold variants like ﬁ → fi)

Decomposition

This character can be broken down into a sequence of simpler Unicode codepoints. This is a compatibility decomposition — the character is a stylistic or semantic variant of its components, not an exact equivalent.

initial ئ U+0626

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