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U+0621 · ARABIC LETTER HAMZA

Arabic Letter Hamza

  • CodepointU+0621
  • NameARABIC LETTER HAMZA
  • Decimal1569
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptArabic
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classAL — Arabic Letter
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+0621 (ء) is ARABIC LETTER HAMZA, a letter in the Arabic block. It belongs to the Arabic script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

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

How to type ء

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D8 A12 bytes
UTF-1606211 code unit
UTF-32000006214 bytes
HTML decimalء
HTML hexء
CSS\621in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0621
JSON\u0621
Python\u0621
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER HAMZA}by name
Java / C#\u0621
C / C++\u0621universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{621}
Go\u0621
Ruby\u0621
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1569)
URL-encoded%D8%A1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+FE80ﺀArabic Letter Hamza Isolated Form
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Characters built on ء

U+FE80ﺀArabic Letter Hamza Isolated Form
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+061B؛Arabic Semicolon U+061CALMArabic Letter Mark 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+0622آArabic Letter Alef with Madda Above U+0623أArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above U+0624ؤArabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above U+0625إArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below U+0626ئArabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above U+0627اArabic Letter Alef