U+FB8C "ﮌ" Arabic Letter Rreh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB8C "ﮌ" Arabic Letter Rreh Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Reh" with two dots above it, representing the sound similar to a retroflex or emphatic "r" as used in certain languages like Somali or Kurdish when written in the Arabic script. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes contextual variants of Arabic letters for compatibility with older text processing systems, and it appears only in its isolated form, meaning it is designed for use when the letter stands alone or at the end of a word without connecting to a following character. Its inclusion helps ensure accurate rendering of texts that require distinct letter shapes for proper typography and readability in specialized linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB8C
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Rreh 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 "ڑ" U+0691 Arabic Letter Rreh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮌ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB8C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB8C
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb8c

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 "ڑ" U+0691 Arabic Letter Rreh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ڑ" U+0691 Arabic Letter Rreh
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