U+FBDC "ﯜ" Arabic Letter Yu Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﯜ
U+FBDC "ﯜ" Arabic Letter Yu Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Yeh, specifically designed to appear in its final position within a word when joined to a preceding character from the right. This glyph represents a contextual shape used in certain Arabic script styles, particularly for writing the vowel sound "ū" as in "Yūsuf," and is primarily utilized in Unicode’s Arabic Presentation Forms-B block to enable correct typographic rendering in legacy or complex text systems. Unlike the standard isolated or initial forms of Yeh, the final form extends with a tail to connect seamlessly to the previous letter, ensuring proper cursive flow in Arabic calligraphy and text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBDC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Yu 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 | "ۈ" U+06C8 Arabic Letter Yu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbdc |
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 | "ۈ" U+06C8 Arabic Letter Yu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ۈ" U+06C8 Arabic Letter Yu |
| 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 |