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U+FB21 · HEBREW LETTER WIDE ALEF

Hebrew Letter Wide Alef

  • CodepointU+FB21
  • NameHEBREW LETTER WIDE ALEF
  • Decimal64289
  • BlockAlphabetic Presentation Forms (U+FB00–U+FB4F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptHebrew
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classR — Right-to-Left
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FB21 (ﬡ) is HEBREW LETTER WIDE ALEF, a letter in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block. It belongs to the Hebrew script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a font variant of U+05D0 א (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+05D0 א. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

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

How to type ﬡ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF AC A13 bytes
UTF-16FB211 code unit
UTF-320000FB214 bytes
HTML decimal&#64289;
HTML hex&#xFB21;
CSS\FB21in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFB21
JSON\uFB21
Python\uFB21
Python\N{HEBREW LETTER WIDE ALEF}by name
Java / C#\uFB21
C / C++\uFB21universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FB21}
Go\uFB21
Ruby\uFB21
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(64289)
URL-encoded%EF%AC%A1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+05D0 א
NFKDU+05D0 א
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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+05D0אHebrew Letter Alef U+2135ℵAlef Symbol
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Nearby in Alphabetic Presentation Forms

All in block →
U+FB1DיִHebrew Letter Yod with Hiriq U+FB1E◌ﬞHebrew Point Judeo-Spanish Varika U+FB1FײַHebrew Ligature Yiddish Yod Yod Patah U+FB20ﬠHebrew Letter Alternative Ayin U+FB22ﬢHebrew Letter Wide Dalet U+FB23ﬣHebrew Letter Wide He U+FB24ﬤHebrew Letter Wide Kaf U+FB25ﬥHebrew Letter Wide Lamed U+FB26ﬦHebrew Letter Wide Final Mem U+FB27ﬧHebrew Letter Wide Resh