U+FE80 Arabic Letter Hamza Isolated Form
U+FE80 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is an isolated version of the glyph
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The hamza (Arabic: هَمْزَة hamza) (ء) is an Arabic script character that, in the Arabic alphabet, denotes a glottal stop and, in non-Arabic languages, indicates a diphthong, vowel, or other features, depending on the language. Derived from the letter ʿAyn (ع), the hamza is written in medial and final positions as an unlinked letter or placed above or under a carrier character. Despite its common usage as a letter in Modern Standard Arabic, it is generally not considered to be one of its letters, although some argue that it should be considered a letter.
The hamza is often romanized as a typewriter apostophe ('), a modifier letter apostrophe (ʼ), a modifier letter right half ring (ʾ), or as the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol ʔ. In Arabizi, it is either written as "2" or not written at all.
In the Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic alphabets, from which the Arabic alphabet is descended, the glottal stop was expressed by alif (𐤀), continued by Alif (ا) in the Arabic alphabet. However, Alif was used to express both a glottal stop and a long vowel /aː/. In order to indicate that a glottal stop is used and not a mere vowel, it was added to Alif diacritically. In modern orthography, hamza may also appear on the line, under certain circumstances as though it were a full letter, independent of an alif.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 65152 |
UTF-8 | EF BA 80 |
UTF-16 | FE 80 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 FE 80 |
URL-Quoted | %EF%BA%80 |
HTML hex reference | ﺀ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﺀ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
ARABIC LETTER HAMZA ISOLATED FORM | |
GLYPH FOR ISOLATE ARABIC HAMZAH | |
Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
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