Arabic Subscript Alef

U+0656

About Arabic Subscript Alef

Arabic Subscript Alef is the Unicode character ٖ at codepoint U+0656 in the Arabic block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Arabic Subscript Alef

To use the Arabic Subscript Alef symbol (ٖ) in HTML, insert the entity ٖ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ٖ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\656';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u0656' evaluates to ٖ. In Python source, write '\u0656'.

The character encodes to D9 96 as UTF-8 bytes and 0656 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 1622.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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