U+FB96 "ﮖ" Arabic Letter Gueh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB96 "ﮖ" Arabic Letter Gueh Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter representing the "gueh" sound, which is typically used in the Arabic script for languages such as Persian, Urdu, and Kurdish to denote a hard "g" sound distinct from the standard Arabic "kaf" or "jim". Characterized by its isolated form, this glyph appears alone and is part of a set of contextual shapes that include initial, medial, and final forms, allowing it to connect to other letters in Arabic script calligraphy and typography. Unlike the basic Unicode character for gueh (U+06AF), this specific presentation form is encoded as a compatibility character, primarily intended to preserve the visual appearance of older text or specialized fonts where the isolated shape diverges from modern standard representations.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB96
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Gueh Isolated Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ڳ" U+06B3 Arabic Letter Gueh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮖ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮖ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB96
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB96
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb96

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 "ڳ" U+06B3 Arabic Letter Gueh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ڳ" U+06B3 Arabic Letter Gueh
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