U+FBEF "ﯯ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Waw Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﯯ
U+FBEF "ﯯ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Waw Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing a combined form of the letters Yeh with Hamza Above followed by Waw, specifically intended for the final position in a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is employed in certain writing systems, particularly for the Urdu language, to improve the aesthetic flow and readability of text where these two characters appear consecutively at the end of a word. Its use is primarily decorative or stylistic, as it compresses what would otherwise be two separate glyphs into a single, visually cohesive unit, reflecting the calligraphic traditions of Arabic-based scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBEF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Waw 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 "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBEF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbef |