U+1EE21 "𞸡" Arabic Mathematical Initial Beh Unicode Character

U+1EE21 "𞸡" Arabic Mathematical Initial Beh is a glyph used within the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block, representing the Arabic letter Beh in its initial positional form styled for mathematical context. This character is part of a larger encoding effort to provide distinct letterforms for representing variables and constants in mathematical notation, following the traditional Arabic script style where letters can have different shapes depending on their position in a word. It is intended for use in formal documents, academic papers, and digital typography where precise mathematical expression requires the specific initial-form Beh, differing from its medial or isolated counterparts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EE21
Version Added	6.1
Name	Arabic Mathematical Initial Beh
Block	Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞸡
HTML Hex Encoding	𞸡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xB8 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83B 0xDE21
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001EE21
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83b\ude21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Math	Yes
Other Math	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter