U+FBDD "ﯝ" Arabic Letter U with Hamza Above Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FBDD "ﯝ" Arabic Letter U with Hamza Above Isolated Form is a specialized typographic symbol used in the Arabic script, representing the vowel sound /u/ accompanied by a hamza (a glottal stop marker) written above it. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which includes contextual forms of letters for precise text rendering in complex scripts. Its isolated form is employed when the letter appears alone in a word, such as in certain transliterations or phonetic notations, enabling accurate representation of the u vowel with a hamza in digital and printed texts. As part of Unicode's comprehensive encoding of Arabic variants, it ensures that rare or stylized characters are available for scholarly, religious, or linguistic works without relying on font-specific workarounds.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBDD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter U with Hamza Above Isolated Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ٷ" U+0677 Arabic Letter U with Hamza Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﯝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﯝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAF 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBDD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBDD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbdd

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 "ٴ" U+0674 Arabic Letter High Hamza
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ۇ" U+06C7 Arabic Letter U "ٴ" U+0674 Arabic Letter High Hamza
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