U+FBEB "ﯫ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FBEB "ﯫ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Final Form is a typographic presentation form used in Arabic script to represent the joined rendering of the letters Yeh with Hamza Above (ئ) followed by Alef (ا) when they appear together in the final position of a word, such as in the common word for "thing" or "object" (شَيْئًا). This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to preserve historical or calligraphic rendering expectations in digital text, and it is typically employed in specialized contexts where exact visual representation of the cursive connection between these characters is required, rather than relying on standard Unicode shaping algorithms.

General Properties

Code Point U+FBEB
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Final Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Final
Decomposition Mapping "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﯫ
HTML Hex Encoding ﯫ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAF 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFBEB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FBEB
C/C++/Java Escape \ufbeb

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 "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
NFKC Simple Casefold "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
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