U+FBA0 "ﮠ" Arabic Letter Rnoon Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﮠ
U+FBA0 "ﮠ" Arabic Letter Rnoon Isolated Form is a specialized typographic variant used in Arabic script, primarily for the Urdu language where it represents a retroflex nasal sound. This character is a presentation form, meaning it is specifically designed for the isolated position within a word, appearing alone rather than connected to adjacent letters. As part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, it facilitates precise rendering in digital text, ensuring that the distinct shape and phonetic value of the rnoon are correctly displayed in contexts requiring advanced calligraphic or linguistic accuracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBA0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Rnoon 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 | "ڻ" U+06BB Arabic Letter Rnoon |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufba0 |
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 | "ڻ" U+06BB Arabic Letter Rnoon |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ڻ" U+06BB Arabic Letter Rnoon |
| 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 |