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U+0671 · ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA

Arabic Letter Alef Wasla

  • CodepointU+0671
  • NameARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA
  • Decimal1649
  • 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+0671 (ٱ) is ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA, 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 ٱ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D9 B12 bytes
UTF-1606711 code unit
UTF-32000006714 bytes
HTML decimalٱ
HTML hexٱ
CSS\671in content: "…"
JavaScript\u0671
JSON\u0671
Python\u0671
Python\N{ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA}by name
Java / C#\u0671
C / C++\u0671universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{671}
Go\u0671
Ruby\u0671
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1649)
URL-encoded%D9%B1percent-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+FB50ﭐArabic Letter Alef Wasla Isolated Form U+FB51ﭑArabic Letter Alef Wasla Final Form
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Characters built on ٱ

U+FB50ﭐArabic Letter Alef Wasla Isolated Form U+FB51ﭑArabic Letter Alef Wasla Final Form
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+066B٫Arabic Decimal Separator U+066C٬Arabic Thousands Separator U+066D٭Arabic Five Pointed Star U+066EٮArabic Letter Dotless Beh U+066FٯArabic Letter Dotless Qaf U+0670◌ٰArabic Letter Superscript Alef U+0672ٲArabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Above U+0673ٳArabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Below U+0674ٴArabic Letter High Hamza U+0675ٵArabic Letter High Hamza Alef U+0676ٶArabic Letter High Hamza Waw U+0677ٷArabic Letter U with Hamza Above