U+FBD6 "ﯖ" Arabic Letter Ng Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBD6 "ﯖ" Arabic Letter Ng Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Ng" (often used for the sound /ŋ/ in languages like Uyghur or other Turkic and African languages written with the Arabic script) and is designed specifically for the medial position within a word, where it connects to both a preceding character on the right and a following character on the left. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was added to Unicode primarily for compatibility with older text encoding standards and for precise typographic rendering. While its use is largely historical or specialized for Arabic script based orthographies, it represents a distinct ligature that allows the "Ng" sound to be written fluidly and connectedly in the middle of a word, distinguishing it from its initial, final, or isolated forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBD6
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ng 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 "ڭ" U+06AD Arabic Letter Ng

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﯖ
HTML Hex Encoding ﯖ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAF 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBD6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBD6
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbd6

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 "ڭ" U+06AD Arabic Letter Ng
NFKC Simple Casefold "ڭ" U+06AD Arabic Letter Ng
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