U+FB55 "ﭕ" Arabic Letter Beeh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB55 "ﭕ" Arabic Letter Beeh Medial Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter “Beh” (ب), specifically designed for the medial position within a word when written in certain calligraphic styles or traditional Arabic script contexts. This character belongs to the Unicode block “Arabic Presentation Forms-A,” which includes ligatures and positional forms that support the complex shaping rules of Arabic typography. U+FB55 depicts the letter “Beh” with a connecting stroke on both its right and left sides, allowing it to seamlessly link with adjacent characters in the middle of a word. It is primarily used in legacy text rendering or specialized typographic systems to ensure proper visual alignment, though modern Arabic fonts typically generate this form automatically through shape processing without needing the encoded character.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB55
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Beeh Medial Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Medial
Decomposition Mapping "ٻ" U+067B Arabic Letter Beeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﭕ
HTML Hex Encoding ﭕ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB55
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB55
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb55

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