U+FBA2 "ﮢ" Arabic Letter Rnoon Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﮢ
U+FBA2 "ﮢ" Arabic Letter Rnoon Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Rnoon," which is a ligature of "Reh" (ر) and "Noon" (ن) used in certain writing styles, particularly in the Urdu and some other South Asian scripts. This character represents the initial position variant of this ligature, meaning it appears at the beginning of a word where it connects to the following letter. It is included in the Unicode standard as part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes contextual glyph variants to support proper cursive rendering in digital typography, though its use is generally historical or specialized rather than mandatory in modern text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBA2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Rnoon 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 | "ڻ" U+06BB Arabic Letter Rnoon |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBA2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufba2 |
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 |