Special characters

Explore our complete collection of special and accented characters used in different languages. Easily find the characters you need for your target language. From accented letters to Arabic characters, a comprehensive directory for your multilingual expression.

This page gathers 2 characters, from ا (U+0627) to ب (U+0628). They belong to the Arabic Unicode block (U+0600–U+06FF), which gathers the Arabic letters, their contextual forms and the diacritical marks (harakat).

Click a character to open its reference page: you will find its code point, its HTML entities, its CSS, JavaScript and Python escape sequences, and how to type it on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Character list

ا Alif ب Baa

Reference table

The 2 characters on this page, with their code point, HTML entity and the shortcut to use on each system.

Character Name Code point Named HTML entity Windows macOS Linux
ا Alif U+0627 ا 0627 + Alt + X — Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 0627
ب Baa U+0628 ب 0628 + Alt + X — Ctrl + ⇧ + U, 0628

Keyboards that carry these characters

Rather than memorising a code, type these characters directly on one of these layouts: