U+1EE8E "𞺎" Arabic Mathematical Looped Seen Unicode Character

U+1EE8E "𞺎" Arabic Mathematical Looped Seen is a specialized glyph used in the context of Arabic mathematical notation, representing the Arabic letter "seen" (which corresponds to the sound "s") in a stylized looped form for use in formulas and equations. It belongs to the Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block, a range of characters designed to support the formatting and rendering of mathematical expressions within the Arabic script, such as in algebra, geometry, or other scientific texts. This character ensures that Arabic-speaking mathematicians and students can write and read mathematical content in a manner consistent with their native writing system, distinguishing it from standard textual Arabic through its looped variant.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EE8E
Version Added	6.1
Name	Arabic Mathematical Looped Seen
Block	Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𞺎
HTML Hex Encoding	𞺎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9E 0xBA 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83B 0xDE8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001EE8E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83b\ude8e

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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
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