U+FB74 "ﭴ" Arabic Letter Dyeh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB74 "ﭴ" Arabic Letter Dyeh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Dyeh, which represents a sound similar to a retroflex or emphatic "d" in certain South Asian languages like Urdu and Sindhi. This specific initial form is used when the letter appears at the beginning of a word or syllable, connecting to the following character on its left. Unlike the standard isolated shape, this variant has a distinctive rightward connecting stroke that links it smoothly to the next letter in cursive Arabic script. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to support complex text layout and typographic rendering rather than to encode a separate semantic unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB74 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Dyeh 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 | "ڄ" U+0684 Arabic Letter Dyeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﭴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﭴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb74 |
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 | "ڄ" U+0684 Arabic Letter Dyeh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ڄ" U+0684 Arabic Letter Dyeh |
| 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 |