U+FBE9 "ﯩ" Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FBE9 "ﯩ" Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Medial Form is a presentation form glyph used in Arabic script typography to represent a specific variant of the Alef Maksura, which is a letter that typically appears as a shortened or hooked alif in word-final positions. This particular medial form is designed to sit within the middle of a word, connecting to both preceding and following characters, and it is historically employed in writing systems for languages such as Uighur, Kazakh, and Kirghiz that utilize the Arabic alphabet. Its inclusion in Unicode aids in the accurate digital rendering of these languages when typesetting complex cursive scripts, ensuring that the letter appears correctly in its appropriate positional context.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﯩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﯩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xAF 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFBE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FBE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ufbe9 |
Unicode Properties