Arabic Letter Alef ا
ا
U+0627
Symbol Meaning
Arabic Letter Alef. Arabic.
The symbol “Arabic Letter Alef” is included in the “Based on ISO 8859-6” subblock of the “Arabic” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Arabic Letter Alef |
| Unicode Number | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Arabic |
| Unicode Subblock | Based on ISO 8859-6 |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Joining Group | Alef |
| Joining Type | Right_Joining |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 0627 |
| Simple case change | 0627 |
| Alphabetic | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Arabic |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | D8 A7 | 216 167 | 55463 | 11011000 10100111 |
| UTF-16BE | 06 27 | 6 39 | 1575 | 00000110 00100111 |
| UTF-16LE | 27 06 | 39 6 | 9990 | 00100111 00000110 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 06 27 | 0 0 6 39 | 1575 | 00000000 00000000 00000110 00100111 |
| UTF-32LE | 27 06 00 00 | 39 6 0 0 | 654704640 | 00100111 00000110 00000000 00000000 |
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