U+FBE8 "ﯨ" Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FBE8 "ﯨ" Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Initial Form is a presentation form used within the Arabic script block, specifically designed to represent the initial form of the Arabic letter alef maksura when it appears at the beginning of a word in the orthographies of Uighur, Kazakh, and Kirghiz languages. This character serves as a positional variant that differs from its isolated or medial forms, enabling proper cursive connection in written text for these Turkic languages that use a modified Arabic script. It is classified as an Arabic presentation form, meaning it is intended for specialized typographic rendering rather than for general text interchange, and its inclusion in Unicode facilitates accurate display and processing of digital texts in these specific language contexts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﯨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﯨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAF 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFBE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FBE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufbe8 |
Unicode Properties