U+FB56 "ﭖ" Arabic Letter Peh Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |