U+FB70 "ﭰ" Arabic Letter Peheh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﭰ
U+FB70 "ﭰ" Arabic Letter Peheh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Peheh, which is used in various Arabic-based scripts, such as those for Urdu, Punjabi, and other languages, to represent the "p" sound not found in standard Arabic. This specific glyph appears at the beginning of a word or syllable, connecting to the following letter, and is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was encoded to facilitate bidirectional text display and typographic ligature rendering in legacy systems. Its inclusion allows for correct visual representation in digital text when joined to adjacent characters, preserving the cursive flow of Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB70 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Peheh 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 | "ڦ" U+06A6 Arabic Letter Peheh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﭰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﭰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb70 |
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 | "ڦ" U+06A6 Arabic Letter Peheh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ڦ" U+06A6 Arabic Letter Peheh |
| 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 |