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U+FFF9 IAA

INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR

Zero-width format control character governing layout and script joining.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR
Code Point U+FFF9
Decimal Value 65529
General Category Format (Cf) →
Unicode Block Specials →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 3.0 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes EF BF B9
UTF-16 Code Unit FFF9
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000FFF9
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: FF F9 LE: F9 FF
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 FF F9 LE: F9 FF 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 
HTML Hexadecimal 
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00FFF9
JavaScript (ES6) \uFFF9
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uFFF9
JSON Escape \uFFF9
Python \uFFF9
PHP "\u{FFF9}"
Java "\uFFF9"
C / C++ "\uFFF9"
Rust '\u{fff9}'
URL Percent-Encoded %EF%BF%B9

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 ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Non-Printable Character Notice

Code point U+FFF9 represents a IAA (General Category Cf). It does not produce a visible standalone glyph in standard font engines and is intended for programmatic, syntactic, layout, or lexical operations.

Names & Aliases

Official Name INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR

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

Identifier U+FFF9

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