U+FB78 "ﭸ" Arabic Letter Nyeh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﭸ
U+FB78 "ﭸ" Arabic Letter Nyeh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "ڼ" (Nyeh), specifically designed to be used in a cursive word-initial position, where it connects to the following character. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and supports the orthography of languages such as Pashto, where the letter Nyeh represents a retroflex nasal sound distinct from the standard Arabic noon. It is typically employed in bidirectional text rendering and compliant Unicode text handling to ensure accurate visual representation of connected Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB78 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Nyeh 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 | "ڃ" U+0683 Arabic Letter Nyeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﭸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﭸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb78 |
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 | "ڃ" U+0683 Arabic Letter Nyeh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ڃ" U+0683 Arabic Letter Nyeh |
| 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 |