U+FB8E "ﮎ" Arabic Letter Keheh Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB8E "ﮎ" Arabic Letter Keheh Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter keheh, which represents a "k" sound in certain languages using the Arabic script, such as Uyghur, Kashmiri, and Urdu, where it is distinct from the standard Arabic kāf. This isolated form appears at the beginning or alone within a word, and it is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to provide precise positional shapes for complex text rendering. Its use is specific to contexts where the keheh letter requires a distinct visual representation compared to the basic kāf, aiding in accurate linguistic and typographic distinction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB8E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Keheh 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 | "ک" U+06A9 Arabic Letter Keheh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb8e |
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 | "ک" U+06A9 Arabic Letter Keheh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ک" U+06A9 Arabic Letter Keheh |
| 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 |