U+FBAC "ﮬ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBAC "ﮬ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Initial Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter "heh" (ھ) used in the writing systems of certain languages like Urdu and Sindhi, where it appears in the initial position of a word. The name "Doachashmee" translates to "two-eyed" in Persian, referring to the distinctive shape of the letter that resembles two dots placed side by side, and in its initial form, it connects to the following character in a cursive script. This character is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, primarily serving for compatibility and precise rendering of historical or stylistic typography, rather than for standard modern text encoding, which instead uses the basic Arabic letter "ھ" (U+06BE).

General Properties

Code Point U+FBAC
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Initial Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Initial
Decomposition Mapping "ھ" U+06BE Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮬ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮬ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBAC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBAC
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbac

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