U+FB8D "ﮍ" Arabic Letter Rreh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB8D "ﮍ" Arabic Letter Rreh Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter that represents a specific sound used in certain languages written with the Arabic script, particularly in the African languages of the Sahel and Sudan region, such as Fulfulde or Hausa. This character is the final form variant of the letter "rar" or "rreh," meaning it is designed to appear only when the letter is at the end of a word, connecting to the preceding character from the right in cursive Arabic writing. It was encoded in Unicode to support proper typographic rendering and text storage for languages that use this distinct letter for a retroflex or emphatic "r" sound, distinguishing it from the standard Arabic "ra" and ensuring accurate digital representation in documents and electronic text.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB8D
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Rreh 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 "ڑ" U+0691 Arabic Letter Rreh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮍ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮍ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB8D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB8D
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb8d

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