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U+0623 · ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE

Arabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above

  • CodepointU+0623
  • NameARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
  • Decimal1571
  • 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+0623 (أ) is ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE, a letter in the Arabic block. It belongs to the Arabic script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+0627 ا + U+0654 ◌ٔ, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

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 أ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D8 A32 bytes
UTF-1606231 code unit
UTF-32000006234 bytes
HTML decimalأ
HTML hexأ
CSS\623in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0623
JSON\u0623
Python\u0623
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE}by name
Java / C#\u0623
C / C++\u0623universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{623}
Go\u0623
Ruby\u0623
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1571)
URL-encoded%D8%A3percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+0627 ا + U+0654 ◌ٔ
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+0627 ا + U+0654 ◌ٔ
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Characters built on أ

U+FE83ﺃArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form U+FE84ﺄArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above Final Form U+FEF7ﻷArabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Above Isolated Form U+FEF8ﻸArabic Ligature Lam with Alef with Hamza Above Final Form
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
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 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 U+0628بArabic Letter Beh U+0629ةArabic Letter Teh Marbuta