ASCII Character ء
Arabic letter HamzahHamza (Arabic: همزة hamzah) (ء) is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop [ʔ]. Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters and owes its existence to historical inconsistencies in the standard writing system. It is derived from the Arabic letter ʿAyn (ع). Hamza is derived from the verb hamaza (هَمَزَ) meaning 'to prick, goad, drive' or 'to provide (a letter or word) with hamzah'.
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ASCII Code for ء
These are the code points for arabic letter Hamzah in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| ISO-8859-6 | 193 | C1 |
| Windows-1256 | 193 | C1 |
Unicode for ء
The character for arabic letter Hamzah is mapped in Unicode as U+0621| Unicode | U+0621 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 1569 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u0621 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xD8 0xA1 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11011000:10100001 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 11011000:10100001 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x0621 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000621 | |
HTML Entities for ء
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the arabic letter Hamzah in HTML| HTML Number | ء | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ء |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %D8%A1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =D8=A1 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0621" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \0621 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0621" | |
| Perl | \x{0621} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0621" | |
| Python 3 | \u0621 | |
| Ruby | \u{0621} |