U+FB95 "ﮕ" Arabic Letter Gaf Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FB95 "ﮕ" Arabic Letter Gaf Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Gaf, used specifically in the medial position within a word, where it connects to the preceding and following characters. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual shapes designed for compatibility with legacy text rendering rather than for standard typing. It represents the Middle Eastern variant of the letter Gaf, often pronounced as a hard "g" sound, and is typically employed in languages like Persian, Urdu, and Pashto when they are written in the Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FB95
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Gaf Medial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"گ" U+06AF Arabic Letter Gaf

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﮕ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﮕ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAE 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFB95
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FB95
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufb95

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