U+FE74 "ﹴ" Arabic Kasratan Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FE74 "ﹴ" Arabic Kasratan Isolated Form is a presentation form used in Arabic script to represent the kasratan diacritic, which indicates the nominative case with a double kasra (a short vowel sound /i/ followed by an unwritten nunation) in certain contexts where text is rendered in an isolated, self-standing manner rather than connected to surrounding letters. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed for compatibility with legacy encoding systems, and it appears as a small, horizontal wavy stroke placed above a baseline position, typically used in Quranic or formal orthography to correctly display the tanwin (nunation) marker when a word stands alone in isolation. It is distinct from the combining kasratan (U+064D) as it occupies its own character cell for visual alignment in specialized typographic settings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE74
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Kasratan Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Arabic Spacing Kasratan
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+064D Arabic Kasratan

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﹴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﹴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE74
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE74
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe74

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+064D Arabic Kasratan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "ٍ" U+064D Arabic Kasratan
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