U+FBA9 "ﮩ" Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﮩ
U+FBA9 "ﮩ" Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter "heh" used in the writing system of the Urdu language, where it represents a specific medial (middle-of-word) form known as the "goal" or "docheshmi heh" style. This form typically features a more pronounced "hook" or "eye" shape compared to standard Arabic medial heh, and it often denotes an aspirated consonant or a distinct phonetic sound in Urdu orthography, particularly in words of Persian or Arabic origin. It appears within a word, connecting to the preceding letter on the right and to the following letter on the left, following the right-to-left script direction of Arabic-based writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBA9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Heh Goal Medial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ہ" U+06C1 Arabic Letter Heh Goal |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufba9 |
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 | "ہ" U+06C1 Arabic Letter Heh Goal |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ہ" U+06C1 Arabic Letter Heh Goal |
| 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 |