U+FBE5 "ﯥ" Arabic Letter E Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBE5 "ﯥ" Arabic Letter E Final Form is a presentation form variant used in the Arabic script for the letter representing the vowel sound "e," specifically designed to appear in the final position of a word, where it connects to the preceding letter from the right but not to any following character. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which exists to enable correct visual rendering of complex typographic shapes that standard Arabic characters do not fully accommodate. Its primary purpose is to support legacy text processing systems and specialized typesetting environments that require explicit end-of-word glyphs, though modern Unicode-aware software typically substitutes this with the basic Arabic letter e (U+06D3) combined with automatic shaping rules.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBE5
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter E 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 "ې" U+06D0 Arabic Letter E

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﯥ
HTML Hex Encoding ﯥ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAF 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBE5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBE5
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbe5

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