U+08AD ARABIC LETTER LOW ALEF

The Unicode character U+08AD, officially named ARABIC LETTER LOW ALEF, was introduced in Unicode version 7.0. It is part of the Arabic Ext A block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Arabic script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Arabic Letter character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.