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ALM
U+061C · ARABIC LETTER MARK

Arabic Letter Mark

  • CodepointU+061C
  • NameARABIC LETTER MARK
  • Decimal1564
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptArabic
  • CategoryCf — Format
  • Unicode version6.3 (2013)
  • Bidi classAL — Arabic Letter
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+061C is ARABIC LETTER MARK, an invisible format character in the Arabic block. It belongs to the Arabic script. It was added in Unicode 6.3 (2013).

It is a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class AL), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

It is invisible. It changes how surrounding text is processed or displayed but has no glyph of its own, which makes it easy to paste by accident.

It is a default-ignorable codepoint: when a font or renderer does not support it, it should be displayed as nothing at all rather than as a missing-glyph box.

Common abbreviation: ALM.

How to type it

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D8 9C2 bytes
UTF-16061C1 code unit
UTF-320000061C4 bytes
HTML decimal؜
HTML hex؜
CSS\61Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u061C
JSON\u061C
Python\u061C
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER MARK}by name
Java / C#\u061C
C / C++\u061Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{61C}
Go\u061C
Ruby\u061C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1564)
URL-encoded%D8%9Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0616◌ؖArabic Small High Ligature Alef with Lam with Yeh U+0617◌ؗArabic Small High Zain U+0618◌ؘArabic Small Fatha U+0619◌ؙArabic Small Damma U+061A◌ؚArabic Small Kasra U+061B؛Arabic Semicolon U+061D؝Arabic End of Text Mark U+061E؞Arabic Triple Dot Punctuation Mark U+061F؟Arabic Question Mark U+0620ؠArabic Letter Kashmiri Yeh U+0621ءArabic Letter Hamza U+0622آArabic Letter Alef with Madda Above