U+FB97 "ﮗ" Arabic Letter Gueh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB97 "ﮗ" Arabic Letter Gueh Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter gueh, which is used primarily in certain Central Asian and South Asian languages such as Urdu, Kashmiri, and others, to represent a voiced velar or palatal sound similar to a hard "g" as in "go". This specific character is designed for use in a typographic context as the final form of the letter, meaning it appears when the letter is at the end of a word or in an isolated position, and it features a distinctive looping tail that connects to preceding letters in cursive Arabic script. Unlike the basic character U+06AF "گ", which has several contextual shapes, the final form encoded at U+FB97 is a precomposed glyph intended to ensure correct rendering in legacy systems that do not support full Arabic shaping, though modern text processing typically relies on the unified Arabic block for such contextual shaping.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB97
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Gueh 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 "ڳ" U+06B3 Arabic Letter Gueh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮗ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮗ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB97
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB97
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb97

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