U+FBA4 "ﮤ" Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBA4 "ﮤ" Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above Isolated Form is a presentation form variant used in Arabic script for specific typographic and calligraphic contexts, particularly in the Naskh or similar styles. It represents the Arabic letter "heh" (ﻩ) with a small "yeh" diacritic or mark positioned above it, often employed in certain Quranic texts or specialized orthographies to denote a phonetic or grammatical distinction, such as indicating the feminine suffix or a particular pronunciation. This isolated form appears when the letter stands alone without joining to adjacent characters, and it is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support legacy and exact rendering requirements. Users encountering this character typically need specific fonts or rendering engines to display it correctly, as it is not commonly used in standard modern Arabic writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBA4
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above 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 "ۀ" U+06C0 Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮤ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮤ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBA4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBA4
C/C++/Java Escape \ufba4

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 "ۀ" U+06C0 Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above
NFKC Simple Casefold "ۀ" U+06C0 Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above
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