U+FBF8 "ﯸ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with E Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﯸ
U+FBF8 "ﯸ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with E Initial Form is a specialized typographic character used in the Arabic script for the presentation of a specific ligature. It represents the initial form of the letter "Yeh" (ﻱ) combined with a hamza above and an additional "E" component, often appearing in complex text rendering for languages like Persian or Urdu. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed primarily for compatibility with legacy text systems and for precise digital typesetting, allowing words to display their proper calligraphic shapes when a "Yeh with Hamza Above" is followed by a connecting letter in its initial position.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBF8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with E Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above "ې" U+06D0 Arabic Letter E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbf8 |