U+FB9E "ﮞ" Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﮞ
U+FB9E "ﮞ" Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter noon used to denote the ghunna, or nasalization, sound in Quranic and some formal Arabic texts. It appears as an isolated glyph, distinct from the standard noon, and is primarily employed in the orthographic conventions of certain languages like Urdu and Ottoman Turkish to indicate a nasal pronunciation at the end of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, which contains contextual shapes for Arabic letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB9E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna 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 | "ں" U+06BA Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb9e |
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 | "ں" U+06BA Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ں" U+06BA Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna |
| 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 |