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

Code Point U+FBE9
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

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

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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