U+FB88 "ﮈ" Arabic Letter Ddal Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB88 "ﮈ" Arabic Letter Ddal Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Ddal, used in specific scripts like Urdu or Kashmiri, where it represents a retroflex d sound distinct from the standard Arabic dal. This character, when in its isolated form as encoded here, appears as a standalone glyph typically used at the beginning or within certain calligraphic contexts, rather than in connected cursive text. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to support legacy font rendering and historical text representation, rather than for modern plain text typing in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB88 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Ddal 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 | "ڈ" U+0688 Arabic Letter Ddal |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb88 |
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 | "ڈ" U+0688 Arabic Letter Ddal |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ڈ" U+0688 Arabic Letter Ddal |
| 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 |