U+FB58 "ﭘ" Arabic Letter Peh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB58 "ﭘ" Arabic Letter Peh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Peh, which is used in Arabic script based languages such as Persian, Urdu, and Pashto to represent the sound "p" a consonant that does not exist in standard Arabic. This specific glyph represents the initial form of the letter, meaning it appears at the beginning of a word where it connects to the following character on its left side. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms B block, which contains character variants designed for complex text layout and justification, allowing for precise typographic rendering in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB58 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Peh Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "پ" U+067E Arabic Letter Peh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﭘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﭘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb58 |
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 |