U+FB9A "ﮚ" Arabic Letter Ngoeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB9A "ﮚ" Arabic Letter Ngoeh Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter ngoeh, which is used primarily in writing the Urdu language and other South Asian languages that employ the Arabic script, such as Punjabi and Sindhi. Unlike the basic Arabic letter seen in standard text, this specific glyph is part of a set of contextual forms that dictate how the character appears when it is isolated or stands alone, without connection to any other letter. It represents a distinct sound similar to the "ŋ" found in English words like "sing" or the "ng" in "long," and it is typically formed by adding a small ghunnah or nasal diacritic mark to the base letter noon. This isolated form ensures proper typographic rendering in digital text, allowing readers to correctly identify the character in names, words, and religious or literary contexts where precise phonetic representation is essential.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB9A
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ngoeh 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 "ڱ" U+06B1 Arabic Letter Ngoeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮚ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮚ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB9A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb9a

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 "ڱ" U+06B1 Arabic Letter Ngoeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ڱ" U+06B1 Arabic Letter Ngoeh
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