U+FBFE "ﯾ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FBFE "ﯾ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Yeh, specifically used in the Persian or Farsi variant, designed to appear in the initial position of a word when connected to a following character. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual glyph variants for typographic rendering, and is typically displayed with a curved, hook-like shape that differs from the isolated or final forms of the same letter. This character is not used in standard plain text but rather in specialized text processing, such as in ancient or complex script fonts, to ensure correct visual joining in words like Persian compound formations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FBFE
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh 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	"ی" U+06CC Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﯾ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﯾ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xAF 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFBFE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FBFE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufbfe

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	"ی" U+06CC Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ی" U+06CC Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh
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