U+FB23 "ﬣ" Hebrew Letter Wide He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB23 "ﬣ" Hebrew Letter Wide He is a typographic variant of the Hebrew letter He, distinguished by its wider horizontal breadth compared to the standard form. This wide variant is part of the Unicode block's presentation forms, designed to provide a more balanced visual appearance in specific contexts, such as when positioned within words or lines where spacing adjustments are needed. Although it represents the same phonetic value as the regular He, its inclusion in the Unicode standard supports precise text rendering for specialized digital typography and historical or liturgical manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB23 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Wide He |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ה" U+05D4 Hebrew Letter He |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb23 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Hebrew Letter |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ה" U+05D4 Hebrew Letter He |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ה" U+05D4 Hebrew Letter He |
| Script | Hebrew |
| Script Extensions | Hebrew |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Hebrew Letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |