U+FE70 "ﹰ" Arabic Fathatan Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FE70 "ﹰ" Arabic Fathatan Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic diacritical mark known as fathatan, which represents the consonant doubling or nunation of the fatha vowel sound, typically used in Quranic and formal Arabic texts to indicate an indefinite accusative or adverbial ending. This specific glyph appears in an isolated form, meaning it is designed to stand alone without connecting to adjacent letters, as part of the Unicode standard for Arabic presentation forms that facilitate correct display in certain typographic contexts. Unlike its compatibility counterpart in the basic Arabic block, U+FE70 is intended for legacy encoding and formatting scenarios, where precise visual representation of the diacritic in its standalone position is required for accurate text rendering.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE70
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Fathatan Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Arabic Spacing Fathatan
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"SP" U+0020 Space "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﹰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﹰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE70
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE70
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe70

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	"SP" U+0020 Space "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter