U+FB6D "ﭭ" Arabic Letter Veh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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