U+FBD3 "ﯓ" Arabic Letter Ng Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FBD3 "ﯓ" Arabic Letter Ng Isolated Form is a specialized typographic glyph used in Arabic script to represent the "ng" sound, which is not native to standard Arabic but appears in languages such as Uyghur, Kazakh, and other Turkic or South Asian languages that employ the Arabic alphabet. This isolated form is one of four positional variants of the letter, designed to appear when the character stands alone or at the end of a word without connection to a following letter. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation and rendering of these languages, where the "ng" phoneme is common and requires a distinct letter to avoid ambiguity. The character itself resembles a standard Arabic noon (ن) with an additional diacritic or stroke above it, signaling its unique pronunciation, and it is a crucial element for faithful typesetting in regions where Arabic script is adapted for non-Arabic languages.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﯓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﯓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAF 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFBD3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FBD3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufbd3 |
Unicode Properties