U+FB93 "ﮓ" Arabic Letter Gaf Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB93 "ﮓ" Arabic Letter Gaf Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter gaf, specifically designed for the final position within a word where it connects to the preceding character on its right side. This glyph is derived from the standard Arabic letter gaf, which represents a hard "g" sound and is used in various languages that employ the Arabic script, such as Persian, Urdu, and Pashto. Its distinctive visual feature is a curved tail that extends below the baseline, distinguishing it from other forms like the medial or isolated shapes. This character is primarily intended for use in typographic contexts, such as font rendering or legacy text systems, where precise control over letter shaping is needed, rather than for ordinary text input, which typically uses the standard dynamic Unicoding algorithm to automatically select the appropriate form.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB93
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Gaf 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 "گ" U+06AF Arabic Letter Gaf

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮓ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮓ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB93
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB93
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb93

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 "گ" U+06AF Arabic Letter Gaf
NFKC Simple Casefold "گ" U+06AF Arabic Letter Gaf
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