U+FB58 "ﭘ" Arabic Letter Peh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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