U+FB7C "ﭼ" Arabic Letter Tcheh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB7C "ﭼ" Arabic Letter Tcheh Initial Form is a presentation form used in Arabic script calligraphy and typography, representing the initial form of the letter "tcheh" (which corresponds to the Persian and Urdu consonant /tʃ/). It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a range of characters designed to allow digital text to display specific contextual shapes that occur at the beginning of a word, where the letter connects to the following character from its right side. This character is typically not used for plain text storage; instead, it is applied in rendering systems that require explicit glyph selection for aesthetic or legacy text support, complementing the standard Unicode encoding of the base character (U+0686 "چ") and its other positional forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB7C
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Tcheh 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 "چ" U+0686 Arabic Letter Tcheh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﭼ
HTML Hex Encoding ﭼ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAD 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB7C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB7C
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb7c

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 "چ" U+0686 Arabic Letter Tcheh
NFKC Simple Casefold "چ" U+0686 Arabic Letter Tcheh
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