U+FBE0 "ﯠ" Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﯠ
U+FBE0 "ﯠ" Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic script designed specifically for the Kyrgyz language, representing a vowel sound similar to "ö" or "œ". It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual forms of Arabic letters for use in complex text layouts, and this isolated form is intended to appear when the letter stands alone, without connecting to adjacent characters. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates correct digital representation of Kyrgyz, where the standard Arabic letter shapes are adapted to accommodate the language’s distinct phonetic needs, such as back and front vowel harmony.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBE0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe 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 | "ۅ" U+06C5 Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbe0 |
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 | "ۅ" U+06C5 Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ۅ" U+06C5 Arabic Letter Kirghiz Oe |
| 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 |