U+FBAD "ﮭ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBAD "ﮭ" Arabic Letter Heh Doachashmee Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Heh" with a distinctive two dots (doachashmee) used in specific orthographic traditions, particularly in Persian and Urdu scripts. This medial variant appears in the middle of a word, linking to adjacent letters on both sides, and is employed to accurately represent the pronunciation of certain loanwords or native terms where the standard Heh would not suffice. Its inclusion in Unicode's Arabic Presentation Forms-A block ensures that digital text can faithfully render these typographically specialized characters as they appear in handwritten or calligraphic styles, preserving linguistic and textual authenticity in contexts such as religious manuscripts or historical documents.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﮭ
HTML Hex Encoding ﮭ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAE 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBAD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBAD
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbad

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