U+FBBC "﮼" Arabic Symbol Double Vertical Bar Below Unicode Character

U+FBBC "﮼" Arabic Symbol Double Vertical Bar Below is a specialized diacritical mark used in the Arabic script, primarily within the context of Quranic recitation and advanced orthography, to indicate a specific phonetic or grammatical feature that requires a sustained pause or a particular prolongation, often appearing beneath certain letters to modify their pronunciation. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains a range of such variant characters designed for compatibility with legacy text encoding systems. This glyph is not commonly used in standard modern Arabic writing but serves a precise role in ensuring accurate textual representation in religious and scholarly manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBBC
Version Added	6.0
Name	Arabic Symbol Double Vertical Bar Below
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Modifier Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﮼
HTML Hex Encoding	﮼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAE 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBBC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBBC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbbc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other