U+FB90 "ﮐ" Arabic Letter Keheh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB90 "ﮐ" Arabic Letter Keheh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter keheh, which is used in the Uyghur and Kazakh languages to represent a /k/ or /q/ sound, and it typically appears in its connected initial position within a word, meaning it is designed to join with the following letter from the right side. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, where it serves a typographic or calligraphic function rather than being used for plain text encoding, as standard Arabic script encoding with isolated or positional forms usually suffices for digital text. Its visual shape resembles an initial kaf but with a distinctive open top and a curved descender, reflecting the specific graphic requirements of the Arabic script variants that employ this letter.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB90
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Keheh Initial Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Initial
Decomposition Mapping "ک" U+06A9 Arabic Letter Keheh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮐ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮐ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB90
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB90
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb90

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