U+FB5A "ﭚ" Arabic Letter Beheh Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |