U+FB9F "ﮟ" Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB9F "ﮟ" Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter noon, specifically designed to represent the nasalized "n" sound (ghunna) when it appears in the final position of a word. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which exists primarily for compatibility with older text encoding standards rather than for modern plain text use, as contemporary Arabic fonts can typically produce this shape automatically through contextual shaping rules. This character is most commonly encountered in liturgical or pedagogical contexts, particularly in Quranic recitation where precise notation of nasalization is important, and it appears in scripts like Nastaliq and Naskh to visually indicate the ghunna feature of the noon sakinah or tanween.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB9F
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna 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 "ں" U+06BA Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮟ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮟ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB9F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB9F
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb9f

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