U+FB52 "ﭒ" Arabic Letter Beeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB52 "ﭒ" Arabic Letter Beeh Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter "ب" (beh), which appears as a distinct glyph specifically for typographic use in certain calligraphic or traditional Arabic scripts, such as Nastaliq or Naskh, to represent the letter in its isolated position within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, encoded to enable precise control over text rendering where the shape of the letter may differ from the standard isolated form to better suit aesthetic or historical printing conventions. It represents the same underlying phoneme /b/ as its basic counterpart, but its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate representation of specialized text, such as in religious or decorative manuscripts, without relying on font-level substitutions.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB52
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Beeh Isolated Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ٻ" U+067B Arabic Letter Beeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﭒ
HTML Hex Encoding ﭒ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB52
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB52
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb52

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 "ٻ" U+067B Arabic Letter Beeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ٻ" U+067B Arabic Letter Beeh
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
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 Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter