U+FB7E "ﭾ" Arabic Letter Tcheheh Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﭾ
U+FB7E "ﭾ" Arabic Letter Tcheheh Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter “چ,” which represents the sound /t͡ʃ/ (like the English “ch” in “church”) and is used in scripts for languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, and Kashmiri. It is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, specifically to represent the isolated appearance of the letter in calligraphic or text processing contexts where glyph shaping is critical. This character is distinct from the basic Arabic letter “چ” (U+0686), as U+FB7E is a positional form intended for use with other presentation forms to ensure correct visual rendering when a standard shaping engine is not available.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB7E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Tcheheh Isolated Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ڇ" U+0687 Arabic Letter Tcheheh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﭾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﭾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAD 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb7e |
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 | "ڇ" U+0687 Arabic Letter Tcheheh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ڇ" U+0687 Arabic Letter Tcheheh |
| 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 |