U+FBE4 "ﯤ" Arabic Letter E Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBE4 "ﯤ" Arabic Letter E Isolated Form is a presentation form glyph used in Arabic script typography to represent the letter "e" (similar to the Arabic letter Yeh but with an alternative shape) when it appears in isolation, typically within the context of Urdu or other languages that utilize the Arabic script with specialized letter forms for stylistic or calligraphic purposes. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes contextual glyph variants that are not ordinarily used for standard text but rather for preserving the visual appearance of isolated letters in typesetting or digital documents. Its use ensures that the letter maintains its distinct standalone shape, particularly in situations where standard Unicode representations might not adequately differentiate positional forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBE4
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter E 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 "ې" U+06D0 Arabic Letter E

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﯤ
HTML Hex Encoding ﯤ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAF 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBE4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBE4
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbe4

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 "ې" U+06D0 Arabic Letter E
NFKC Simple Casefold "ې" U+06D0 Arabic Letter E
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