U+FBA5 "ﮥ" Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above Final Form Unicode Character

U+FBA5 "ﮥ" Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter heh (ﻩ) that combines a small yeh (ﻱ) written above it, representing a specific orthographic variant used in certain Arabic script contexts, particularly in the final position of a word. This ligature is primarily employed in Quranic or classical texts to indicate a long vowel or grammatical feature, often marking the possessive or pronominal suffix, and is encoded for compatibility with legacy systems to preserve the distinct visual appearance of handwritten manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital rendering of traditional Arabic calligraphy where such nuanced forms are essential for precise textual representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBA5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above 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	"ۀ" U+06C0 Arabic Letter Heh with Yeh Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﮥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﮥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAE 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBA5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufba5

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