U+FB9C "ﮜ" Arabic Letter Ngoeh Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FB9C "ﮜ" Arabic Letter Ngoeh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter used primarily in the Jawi script for writing the Malay language, where it represents the sound "ng" as in "sing." This specific initial form appears at the beginning of a word or syllable, connecting to the following letter, and is part of a set of contextual glyphs that adapt the base character's shape based on its position in a word. It is encoded in the Unicode standard under the block "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" to support the correct typographic rendering of the Jawi orthography, which requires these glyphs for accurate digital text display.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FB9C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Ngoeh Initial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Initial
Decomposition Mapping	"ڱ" U+06B1 Arabic Letter Ngoeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﮜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﮜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAE 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFB9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FB9C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufb9c

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