U+FBD8 "ﯘ" Arabic Letter U Final Form Unicode Character

U+FBD8 "ﯘ" Arabic Letter U Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter waw with a specific diacritical mark, used exclusively at the end of a word in certain calligraphic or typographic contexts to represent a long 'u' sound. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which exists to preserve the precise glyph shapes required for historical or religious text rendering, such as in the Quran, where final forms like this maintain consistent visual alignment and aesthetic flow. This character is not a standard independent letter but a contextual variant that helps ensure proper cursive joining in Arabic script, where letters change shape depending on their position within a word.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBD8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter U Final Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Final
Decomposition Mapping	"ۇ" U+06C7 Arabic Letter U

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﯘ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﯘ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAF 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBD8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBD8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbd8

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	"ۇ" U+06C7 Arabic Letter U
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ۇ" U+06C7 Arabic Letter U
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