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U+0627 · ARABIC LETTER ALEF

Arabic Letter Alef

  • CodepointU+0627
  • NameARABIC LETTER ALEF
  • Decimal1575
  • 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+0627 (ا) is ARABIC LETTER ALEF, 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 ا

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D8 A72 bytes
UTF-1606271 code unit
UTF-32000006274 bytes
HTML decimalا
HTML hexا
CSS\627in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0627
JSON\u0627
Python\u0627
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER ALEF}by name
Java / C#\u0627
C / C++\u0627universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{627}
Go\u0627
Ruby\u0627
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1575)
URL-encoded%D8%A7percent-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.

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Characters built on ا

U+0622آArabic Letter Alef with Madda Above U+0623أArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Above U+0625إArabic Letter Alef with Hamza Below U+0675ٵArabic Letter High Hamza Alef U+FDFC﷼Rial Sign U+FBEAﯪArabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Isolated Form U+FBEBﯫArabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Final Form U+FC37ﰷArabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Isolated Form U+FC80ﲀArabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Final Form U+FC88ﲈArabic Ligature Meem with Alef Final Form U+FD3CﴼArabic Ligature Alef with Fathatan Final Form U+FD3DﴽArabic Ligature Alef with Fathatan Isolated Form U+FDF2ﷲArabic Ligature Allah Isolated Form U+FDF3ﷳArabic Ligature Akbar Isolated Form U+FDFAﷺArabic Ligature Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam U+FDFBﷻArabic Ligature Jallajalalouhou U+FE8DﺍArabic Letter Alef Isolated Form U+FE8EﺎArabic Letter Alef Final Form U+FEFBﻻArabic Ligature Lam with Alef Isolated Form U+FEFCﻼArabic Ligature Lam with Alef Final Form U+1EE00𞸀Arabic Mathematical Alef U+1EE80𞺀Arabic Mathematical Looped Alef
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0621ءArabic Letter Hamza 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+0628بArabic Letter Beh U+0629ةArabic Letter Teh Marbuta U+062AتArabic Letter Teh U+062BثArabic Letter Theh U+062CجArabic Letter Jeem U+062DحArabic Letter Hah