U+FB64 "ﭤ" Arabic Letter Teheh Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FB64 "ﭤ" Arabic Letter Teheh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "teheh," which represents a sound similar to a retroflex or emphatic "t" used in certain languages like Urdu and Kashmiri. This specific glyph is designed for the initial position of a word, where it connects to the following letter in joined Arabic script, appearing with a distinct rightward tail and a rounded top. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes contextual variants of Arabic letters to support proper text rendering in complex scripts. In digital typography, U+FB64 is typically used for legacy or specialized text handling, as modern Unicode text normally relies on the underlying letter "teheh" (U+067A) and relies on font shaping for correct positional forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FB64
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Teheh 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	"ٿ" U+067F Arabic Letter Teheh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﭤ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﭤ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAD 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFB64
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FB64
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufb64

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	"ٿ" U+067F Arabic Letter Teheh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ٿ" U+067F Arabic Letter Teheh
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