U+FB59 "ﭙ" Arabic Letter Peh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB59 "ﭙ" Arabic Letter Peh Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic script used specifically to represent the sound "p" in the medial position of a word, connecting to both preceding and following letters. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to facilitate correct visual rendering in complex text layouts, and is commonly employed in languages like Urdu, Kashmiri, and Persian that require the "peh" character, which is a modification of the standard Arabic letter "ب" (beh) with three dots below instead of one. This character ensures that the letter appears in its appropriate connected shape when it occurs between other characters in a cursive writing system, maintaining the typographic consistency required for proper reading and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB59
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Peh 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 "پ" U+067E Arabic Letter Peh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﭙ
HTML Hex Encoding ﭙ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB59
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB59
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb59

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