U+FE71 "ﹱ" Arabic Tatweel with Fathatan Above Unicode Character

U+FE71 "ﹱ" Arabic Tatweel with Fathatan Above is a specialized glyph used in Arabic script calligraphy and Quranic orthography. It combines the tatweel, or kashida, which is a horizontal extension stroke used to justify text or elongate letters, with a fathatan diacritic, representing the Arabic nunation indicating an indefinite accusative or adverbial case, placed above the extending line. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is employed in certain traditional or decorative writing contexts to maintain the visual alignment of text while precisely indicating the grammatical function of a prolonged vowel sound.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE71
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Tatweel with Fathatan Above
Unicode 1.0 Name	Arabic Fathatan on Tatweel
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﹱ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﹱ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE71
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE71
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe71

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	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan
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