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U+0627 CHARACTER

ARABIC LETTER ALEF

Quick Facts

Unicode Name ARABIC LETTER ALEF
Code Point U+0627
Decimal Value 1575
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 A7
UTF-16 Code Unit 0627
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000627
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 06 27 LE: 27 06
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 06 27 LE: 27 06 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ا
HTML Hexadecimal ا
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000627
JavaScript (ES6) \u0627
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0627
JSON Escape \u0627
Python \u0627
PHP "\u{627}"
Java "\u0627"
C / C++ "\u0627"
Rust '\u{627}'
URL Percent-Encoded %D8%A7

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+0627 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name ARABIC LETTER ALEF

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

Identifier U+0627

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