U+FB82 "ﮂ" Arabic Letter Ddahal Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FB82 "ﮂ" Arabic Letter Ddahal Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter "𞸔" (Ddahal), which is used in certain Arabic-based scripts, particularly for writing the Sindhi language. This specific isolated form appears when the letter stands alone or at the end of a word, following Arabic script rules for contextual shaping. Its visual design features a distinctive double-headed shape, resembling a rounded, closed form with a looped top, differentiating it from the standard "dhal" letter. The character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms B block, which was added to Unicode to support legacy text rendering and accurate representation of historical or specialized typographic needs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FB82
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Ddahal 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	"ڍ" U+068D Arabic Letter Ddahal

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﮂ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﮂ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAE 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFB82
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FB82
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufb82

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	"ڍ" U+068D Arabic Letter Ddahal
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ڍ" U+068D Arabic Letter Ddahal
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