U+FBAB "ﮫ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBAB "ﮫ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Final Form is a typographic presentation form used in the Arabic script, specifically for the letter heh with the "doachashmee" or two dots above it, appearing in its final position within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is encoded to preserve the specific shape and diacritic arrangement required for certain written traditions, particularly in languages like Urdu or Persian, where it represents a distinct aspirated sound or a variation of the standard heh. It is not a standalone letter in the standard Arabic alphabet but a contextual glyph that ensures proper visual rendering in text processing systems, allowing the letter to connect correctly to preceding characters while maintaining its unique dot pattern.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBAB
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee 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 "ھ" U+06BE Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮫ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮫ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBAB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBAB
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbab

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