U+FB5D "ﭝ" Arabic Letter Beheh Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﭝ
U+FB5D "ﭝ" Arabic Letter Beheh Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "beheh," which represents a voiced bilabial sound similar to "b" but specific to certain languages like Sindhi. It is used in the medial position within a word, meaning it connects to both preceding and following characters in cursive Arabic script. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to support proper typographic shaping in complex text layouts, and it typically appears in scripts where the letter's form changes based on its position, ensuring accurate rendering for digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB5D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Beheh 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 | "ڀ" U+0680 Arabic Letter Beheh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﭝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﭝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB5D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb5d |
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 |