U+FB60 "ﭠ" Arabic Letter Tteheh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB60 "ﭠ" Arabic Letter Tteheh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "ٹ" specifically shaped to appear at the beginning of a word within a cursive Arabic script context. This character represents a variant of the letter "teheh" which is used primarily in certain languages such as Urdu and other South Asian languages to denote a retroflex or emphatic "t" sound that differs from the standard Arabic "ta". As an initial form, it is designed with a distinctive rightward connecting tail that links to the following letter in a word, ensuring proper calligraphic flow. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which exists to support complex text layout requirements for compatibility with older systems rather than for general text encoding.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB60
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Tteheh Initial Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Initial
Decomposition Mapping "ٺ" U+067A Arabic Letter Tteheh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﭠ
HTML Hex Encoding ﭠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB60
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB60
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb60

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 "ٺ" U+067A Arabic Letter Tteheh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ٺ" U+067A Arabic Letter Tteheh
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