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U+0621 CHARACTER

ARABIC LETTER HAMZA

Quick Facts

Unicode Name ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
Code Point U+0621
Decimal Value 1569
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 A1
UTF-16 Code Unit 0621
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000621
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 06 21 LE: 21 06
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 06 21 LE: 21 06 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ء
HTML Hexadecimal ء
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000621
JavaScript (ES6) \u0621
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0621
JSON Escape \u0621
Python \u0621
PHP "\u{621}"
Java "\u0621"
C / C++ "\u0621"
Rust '\u{621}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D8%A1

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

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

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0621 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name ARABIC LETTER HAMZA

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

Identifier U+0621

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