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U+FB2E · HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH PATAH

Hebrew Letter Alef with Patah

  • CodepointU+FB2E
  • NameHEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH PATAH
  • Decimal64302
  • 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+FB2E (אַ) is HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH PATAH, a letter in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block. It belongs to the Hebrew script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+05D0 א + U+05B7 ◌ַ, 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 R), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

How to type אַ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF AC AE3 bytes
UTF-16FB2E1 code unit
UTF-320000FB2E4 bytes
HTML decimalאַ
HTML hexאַ
CSS\FB2Ein content: "…"
JavaScript\uFB2E
JSON\uFB2E
Python\uFB2E
Python\N{HEBREW LETTER ALEF WITH PATAH}by name
Java / C#\uFB2E
C / C++\uFB2Euniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FB2E}
Go\uFB2E
Ruby\uFB2E
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(64302)
URL-encoded%EF%AC%AEpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCU+05D0 א + U+05B7 ◌ַ
NFDU+05D0 א + U+05B7 ◌ַ
NFKCU+05D0 א + U+05B7 ◌ַ
NFKDU+05D0 א + U+05B7 ◌ַ
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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+FB2FאָHebrew Letter Alef with Qamats U+FB30אּHebrew Letter Alef with Mapiq
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Nearby in Alphabetic Presentation Forms

All in block →
U+FB28ﬨHebrew Letter Wide Tav U+FB29﬩Hebrew Letter Alternative Plus Sign U+FB2AשׁHebrew Letter Shin with Shin Dot U+FB2BשׂHebrew Letter Shin with Sin Dot U+FB2CשּׁHebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh and Shin Dot U+FB2DשּׂHebrew Letter Shin with Dagesh and Sin Dot U+FB2FאָHebrew Letter Alef with Qamats U+FB30אּHebrew Letter Alef with Mapiq U+FB31בּHebrew Letter Bet with Dagesh U+FB32גּHebrew Letter Gimel with Dagesh U+FB33דּHebrew Letter Dalet with Dagesh U+FB34הּHebrew Letter He with Mapiq