U+FB99 "ﮙ" Arabic Letter Gueh Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB99 "ﮙ" Arabic Letter Gueh Medial Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter gueh, which is used primarily in African languages such as Wolof and Fulfulde to represent the voiced velar sound /g/ or a similar voiced uvular /ɢ/. This specific glyph represents the medial position of the letter when it appears in the middle of a word, connecting to both preceding and following characters in a cursive Arabic script. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to support the correct visual rendering of complex text layouts where standard Unicode characters may not automatically produce the precise positional shapes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB99 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Gueh 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 | "ڳ" U+06B3 Arabic Letter Gueh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb99 |
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 |