U+FE8B ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE INITIAL FORM
U+FE8B was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Arabic Presentation Forms-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is a Initial composition of the glyph Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Arabic Letter and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+FE8B behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Hamza (Arabic: همزة hamzah) (ء) is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop [ʔ]. Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters and owes its existence to historical inconsistencies in the standard writing system. It is derived from the Arabic letter ʿAyn (ع). In the Phoenician and Aramaic alphabets, from which the Arabic alphabet is descended, the glottal stop was expressed by alif (𐤀), continued by Alif ( ا ) in the Arabic alphabet. However, Alif was used to express both a glottal stop and also a long vowel /aː/. In order to indicate that a glottal stop is used, and not a mere vowel, it was added to Alif diacritically. In modern orthography, hamza may also appear on the line, under certain circumstances as though it were a full letter, independent of an Alif.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65163 |
| UTF-8 | EF BA 8B |
| UTF-16 | FE 8B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FE 8B |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BA%8B |
| HTML-Escape | ﺋ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ïº |
| Adobe Glyph List | yehhamzaaboveinitialarabic |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE INITIAL FORM | |
| GLYPH FOR INITIAL ARABIC HAMZAH ON YA | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| Initial | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above | |
| No | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above Initial Form | |
| R |