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
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