U+FBE6 "ﯦ" Arabic Letter E Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FBE6 "ﯦ" Arabic Letter E Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "beh" with a three dots below, commonly used in certain orthographies like those for the Sindhi language to represent a voiced bilabial plosive with a specific diacritic. As an initial form, it appears at the beginning of a word in Arabic script, connecting to the following letter from its right side, and it is encoded in the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-B block primarily for compatibility with older text rendering systems. This character allows for precise representation of regional linguistic needs that differ from standard Arabic, ensuring proper digital display in contexts where such specialized letter shapes are required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBE6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter E Initial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Initial
Decomposition Mapping	"ې" U+06D0 Arabic Letter E

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﯦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﯦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAF 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBE6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBE6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbe6

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