U+FBD5 "ﯕ" Arabic Letter Ng Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FBD5 "ﯕ" Arabic Letter Ng Initial Form is a presentation form glyph used in the Arabic script to represent the consonant sound equivalent to the English "ng" as in "sing," specifically in its initial position within a word. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual variants of Arabic letters that are designed for legible text rendering, though this character is now considered obsolete and is not part of standard modern Arabic orthography. Historically, it was employed in languages like Uyghur and some early Turkish orthographies before being replaced by more common letter sequences or diacritic marks. As a Unicode control character, it primarily exists for compatibility with legacy text conversions and should not be used for general text input, as modern fonts and systems rely on dynamic shaping of standard Arabic characters instead.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﯕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﯕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAF 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFBD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FBD5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufbd5 |
Unicode Properties