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U+0623 CHARACTER

ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE

Quick Facts

Unicode Name ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
Code Point U+0623
Decimal Value 1571
General Category Other Letter (Lo) →
Unicode Block Arabic →
Script Arabic →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 2 bytes D8 A3
UTF-16 Code Unit 0623
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000623
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 06 23 LE: 23 06
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 06 23 LE: 23 06 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal أ
HTML Hexadecimal أ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000623
JavaScript (ES6) \u0623
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0623
JSON Escape \u0623
Python \u0623
PHP "\u{623}"
Java "\u0623"
C / C++ "\u0623"
Rust '\u{623}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D8%A3

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0 — Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition 0627 0654 canonical
NFC / NFD Forms NFD decomposes to constituent code points; NFC composes into this unified scalar.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class AL — Arabic Letter (Right-to-Left Arabic)
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0623 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
أ
Context: A أ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
أ
Context: A أ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
أ
Context: A أ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
أ
Context: A أ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0623

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