U+FB8F "ﮏ" Arabic Letter Keheh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB8F "ﮏ" Arabic Letter Keheh Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter keheh, which is used primarily in the Uighur language and other languages of Central Asia to represent a voiceless uvular plosive sound, similar to a hard "k" pronounced deep in the throat. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and represents the final (or isolated) positional variant of the letter, specifically designed for use at the end of a word or when standing alone to ensure proper cursive connection and legibility in Arabic script text rendering. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for correct typographic display of languages like Uighur, which require this distinct letter shape that differs from the standard Arabic kaf.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB8F
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Keheh 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 "ک" U+06A9 Arabic Letter Keheh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮏ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮏ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB8F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB8F
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb8f

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