U+FE72 "ﹲ" Arabic Dammatan Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FE72 "ﹲ" Arabic Dammatan Isolated Form is a typographic variant used in Arabic script to represent the grammatical marker known as dammatan, which indicates the nominative case of an indefinite noun. This specific form is designed for use when the character stands alone, rather than connecting to adjacent letters, making it an isolated presentation form. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides contextual glyphs for legacy text rendering, and it corresponds to the standard Arabic character U+064C "ٌ" (dammatan). In digital typography, this isolated form helps maintain proper spacing and visual alignment in complex text layouts, particularly in older software or documents that rely on these specific codepoints.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE72
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Dammatan Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Arabic Spacing Dammatan
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+064C Arabic Dammatan

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﹲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﹲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE72
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE72
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe72

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+064C Arabic Dammatan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "ٌ" U+064C Arabic Dammatan
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