U+FE76 "ﹶ" Arabic Fatha Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FE76 "ﹶ" Arabic Fatha Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic diacritical mark fatha, which represents the short vowel sound "a" and is used in Arabic script to indicate pronunciation. Unlike the standard fatha, which is typically written as a small diagonal stroke above a letter, this isolated form is designed to appear on its own without a base character, often for display or teaching purposes in contexts where the vowel sign needs to be shown separately. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a range of Unicode characters created to support special glyph shapes required for certain text rendering and calligraphic styles.

General Properties

Code Point U+FE76
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Fatha Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Arabic Spacing Fathah
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+064E Arabic Fatha

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﹶ
HTML Hex Encoding ﹶ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB9 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFE76
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FE76
C/C++/Java Escape \ufe76

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+064E Arabic Fatha
NFKC Simple Casefold "SP" U+0020 Space
"َ" U+064E Arabic Fatha
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