U+FB80 "ﮀ" Arabic Letter Tcheheh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB80 "ﮀ" Arabic Letter Tcheheh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter tcheheh, which represents the sound "tʃ" (like the "ch" in "chip") and is used primarily in the Uyghur language to write that specific phoneme. This character appears in the initial position of a word, where it connects to the following letter on its left side, and it is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed for compatibility with legacy text encoding systems. Its shape is a variant of the standard Arabic letter "ت" (teh) with an additional three dots above, and it is not typically used in modern digital text unless preserving historical or specialized orthographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB80 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Tcheheh 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 | "ڇ" U+0687 Arabic Letter Tcheheh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb80 |
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 |