U+FB24 "ﬤ" Hebrew Letter Wide Kaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB24 "ﬤ" Hebrew Letter Wide Kaf is a typographic variant of the standard Hebrew letter Kaf, designed with a notably wider horizontal shape to improve visual alignment and readability in justified text layouts or decorative scripts. It belongs to the Unicode block of Alphabetic Presentation Forms, which contains specially formatted versions of letters used in certain religious or high quality typesetting contexts. This character represents a contextual or stylistic form, not a distinct phonetic sound, and is primarily utilized in older printed Hebrew texts or digital fonts that aim to replicate precise calligraphic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB24 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Wide Kaf |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "כ" U+05DB Hebrew Letter Kaf |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB24 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb24 |
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 | "כ" U+05DB Hebrew Letter Kaf |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "כ" U+05DB Hebrew Letter Kaf |
| 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 |