U+FB6D "ﭭ" Arabic Letter Veh Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﭭ
U+FB6D "ﭭ" Arabic Letter Veh Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "veh," which is used primarily in languages such as Urdu, Kashmiri, and other South Asian scripts that extend the Arabic alphabet. This specific medial form appears when the character is positioned between two other letters within a word, connecting seamlessly to both the preceding and following glyphs. It is encoded as part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to support the complex cursive shaping required for proper text rendering in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB6D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Veh 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 | "ڤ" U+06A4 Arabic Letter Veh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﭭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﭭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB6D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB6D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb6d |
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 | "ڤ" U+06A4 Arabic Letter Veh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ڤ" U+06A4 Arabic Letter Veh |
| 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 |