U+FBDE "ﯞ" Arabic Letter Ve Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBDE "ﯞ" Arabic Letter Ve Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Ve," which is used primarily in the Arabic script to represent a "v" sound, a consonant not native to Classical Arabic but necessary for writing loanwords from languages such as Persian, Urdu, and Turkish. This specific character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is designed for isolated contexts where the letter appears alone, distinct from its initial, medial, or final shapes. It consists of a base form similar to the Arabic letter "Fāʼ" but with three dots above its angled head, reflecting its adaptation for foreign phonetics. While modern digital fonts often handle the "Ve" sound through standard encoding, this presentation form provides a fixed glyph for precise typographic use in older systems or specialized text rendering.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBDE
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ve 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 "ۋ" U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﯞ
HTML Hex Encoding ﯞ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAF 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBDE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBDE
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbde

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 "ۋ" U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
NFKC Simple Casefold "ۋ" U+06CB Arabic Letter Ve
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