U+FB27 "ﬧ" Hebrew Letter Wide Resh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB27 "ﬧ" Hebrew Letter Wide Resh is a typographic variant of the standard Hebrew letter Resh (ר), designed with a wider, more spread-out glyph shape. This character belongs to the Unicode block of Alphabetic Presentation Forms and is specifically intended for use in precise typesetting, such as in liturgical or scholarly texts, where the letter's width may be adjusted for visual consistency or aesthetic spacing. It is not a separate letter but a presentation form that represents the same consonant sound as the standard Resh, and its usage is typically governed by font and rendering contexts rather than core linguistic rules.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB27 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hebrew Letter Wide Resh |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ר" U+05E8 Hebrew Letter Resh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb27 |
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 | "ר" U+05E8 Hebrew Letter Resh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ר" U+05E8 Hebrew Letter Resh |
| 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 |