U+FBAA "ﮪ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FBAA "ﮪ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter heh, used primarily in the Urdu and other South Asian writing systems to represent a specific aspirated consonant sound. This isolated form appears at the beginning of a word or in a standalone position, featuring a distinctive "two-eyed" shape with two dots above the letter that distinguish it from the standard heh. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes contextual letter shapes for compatibility with older text rendering systems, and it serves a crucial role in accurately representing the phonetics of languages like Urdu, Punjabi, and Kashmiri.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBAA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee 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 | "ھ" U+06BE Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﮪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﮪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAE 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbaa |
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 | "ھ" U+06BE Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ھ" U+06BE Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee |
| 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 |