U+FB94 "ﮔ" Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB94 "ﮔ" Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter gaf, specifically designed for the initial position within a word where it connects to the following character on its left side. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual shaping variants used for precise typographic rendering in digital text environments. The gaf letter itself represents a g sound, and in its initial form it appears with an open, upward-curving stroke that prepares to link to the next letter, distinguishing it from its isolated or final variants. This encoded form ensures that when text is correctly processed, the letter displays in its appropriate calligraphic shape according to Arabic writing conventions.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB94
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Gaf 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 "گ" U+06AF Arabic Letter Gaf

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮔ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB94
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB94
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb94

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