U+FB56 "ﭖ" Arabic Letter Peh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB56 "ﭖ" Arabic Letter Peh Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter Peh, which is used in languages such as Persian, Urdu, and Pashto to represent the sound /p/, a consonant not found in classical Arabic. This isolated form appears when the letter stands alone within a word or at the end of a word that is not connected to a following character, and it is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides precomposed glyphs for improved rendering in text. Its distinctive shape features a curved base with three dots below the main body, distinguishing it from similar letters like Be or Ye.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB56
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Peh 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 "پ" U+067E Arabic Letter Peh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﭖ
HTML Hex Encoding ﭖ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB56
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB56
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb56

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 "پ" U+067E Arabic Letter Peh
NFKC Simple Casefold "پ" U+067E Arabic Letter Peh
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