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
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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.