U+FBE7 "ﯧ" Arabic Letter E Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FBE7 "ﯧ" Arabic Letter E Medial Form is a presentation form variant used in the Arabic script to represent the letter "e" in its medial position within a word, specifically designed for compatibility with legacy font encoding systems. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual glyph shapes that allow for the proper rendering of Arabic letters depending on their position (initial, medial, or final) in a word. While rarely used in modern text processing due to the availability of more dynamic shaping engines, this character ensures accurate display for environments that rely on precomposed forms, such as older software or specialized typographic applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBE7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter E Medial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ې" U+06D0 Arabic Letter E

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﯧ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﯧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAF 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBE7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBE7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbe7

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