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
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