U+FE73 "ﹳ" Arabic Tail Fragment Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﹳ
U+FE73 "ﹳ" Arabic Tail Fragment is a typographic variant form used in specific Arabic script contexts, primarily within the Nasta'liq calligraphic style. It represents a detached or isolated tail portion of certain Arabic letters, such as the final form of beh or yeh, and is employed to create precise visual connections or spacing in complex text layouts. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which includes contextual glyph variants for advanced typography, though its use is rare in modern digital text and often requires specialized fonts or rendering engines for proper display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE73 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Arabic Tail Fragment |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe73 |