U+FB83 "ﮃ" Arabic Letter Ddahal Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB83 "ﮃ" Arabic Letter Ddahal Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Ddahal, used at the end of a word or in an isolated position where the letter takes its final shape. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a collection of glyph variants designed to support complex cursive rendering in Arabic script. The Ddahal letter itself represents a voiced alveolar lateral fricative sound, distinct from the more common Arabic dal, and is primarily used in languages like Sindhi or other South Asian languages that extend the Arabic alphabet. In its final form, the glyph connects to the preceding letter on its right side, featuring a distinctive looped tail that descends below the baseline, following the standard rules of Arabic calligraphy and typography for word final positioning.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB83
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ddahal Final Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Final
Decomposition Mapping "ڍ" U+068D Arabic Letter Ddahal

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮃ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB83
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB83
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb83

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