U+FB5A "ﭚ" Arabic Letter Beheh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB5A "ﭚ" Arabic Letter Beheh Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "beheh," which represents a specific variant of the Arabic letter "beh" (ب) used primarily in certain writing systems of South and Central Asia, such as Urdu and Sindhi, to denote a distinct phonetic sound similar to the English "b." This isolated form appears when the letter stands alone or at the end of a word without being connected to a following character, as part of the Unicode standard's inclusion of contextual glyph shapes to support correct text rendering.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB5A
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Beheh 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 "ڀ" U+0680 Arabic Letter Beheh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﭚ
HTML Hex Encoding ﭚ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB5A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB5A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb5a

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 "ڀ" U+0680 Arabic Letter Beheh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ڀ" U+0680 Arabic Letter Beheh
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