ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA ALEF·U+0675

ٵ

Character Information

Code Point
U+0675
HEX
0675
Unicode Plane
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter

Character Representations

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EncodingHexBinary
UTF8
D9 B5
11011001 10110101
UTF16 (big Endian)
06 75
00000110 01110101
UTF16 (little Endian)
75 06
01110101 00000110
UTF32 (big Endian)
00 00 06 75
00000000 00000000 00000110 01110101
UTF32 (little Endian)
75 06 00 00
01110101 00000110 00000000 00000000
HTML Entity
ٵ
URI Encoded
%D9%B5

Description

The Arabic letter U+0675 (High Hamza Alef) is a significant character within the Unicode Standard, playing a vital role in digital text representations of the Arabic language. This character serves as an independent letter and is also utilized as a shaping character that affects the form of subsequent letters. High Hamza Alef often represents the phoneme /h/, and it appears frequently in the written Arabic language. As an essential component of many Arabic words, it contributes to the linguistic diversity of the Middle East and North Africa, where Arabic is widely spoken. In digital typography, this character adheres to specific rules governing the shaping of Arabic script, ensuring proper rendering and readability across various platforms and applications.

How to type the ٵ symbol on Windows

Hold Alt and type 1653 on the numpad. Or use Character Map.

  1. Step 1: Determine the UTF-8 encoding bit layout

    The character ٵ has the Unicode code point U+0675. In UTF-8, it is encoded using 2 bytes because its codepoint is in the range of 0x0080 to 0x07ff.

    Therefore we know that the UTF-8 encoding will be done over 11 bits within the final 16 bits and that it will have the format: 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx
    Where the x are the payload bits.

    UTF-8 Encoding bit layout by codepoint range
    Codepoint RangeBytesBit patternPayload length
    U+0000 - U+007F10xxxxxxx7 bits
    U+0080 - U+07FF2110xxxxx 10xxxxxx11 bits
    U+0800 - U+FFFF31110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx16 bits
    U+10000 - U+10FFFF411110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx21 bits
  2. Step 2: Obtain the payload bits:

    Convert the hexadecimal code point U+0675 to binary: 00000110 01110101. Those are the payload bits.

  3. Step 3: Fill in the bits to match the bit pattern:

    Obtain the final bytes by arranging the paylod bits to match the bit layout:
    11011001 10110101