U+FB8A "ﮊ" Arabic Letter Jeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB8A "ﮊ" Arabic Letter Jeh Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the standard Arabic letter "ژ" (Jeh), which itself is a modified form of the letter "ز" (zain) used primarily in Persian, Urdu, and other languages that have adopted the Arabic script to represent the voiced postalveolar fricative sound /ʒ/ (similar to the "s" in "measure"). In Unicode, this specific code point belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes contextual positional forms (such as isolated, initial, medial, and final) to support aesthetic text rendering in certain legacy computer systems and fonts. The isolated form, as denoted by "U+FB8A", appears when the letter stands alone or is not connected to any adjacent characters, making it distinct from other presentation forms of Jeh like the initial or medial variants.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB8A
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Jeh 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 "ژ" U+0698 Arabic Letter Jeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮊ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮊ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB8A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB8A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb8a

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 "ژ" U+0698 Arabic Letter Jeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ژ" U+0698 Arabic Letter Jeh
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