U+FE77 "ﹷ" Arabic Fatha Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FE77 "ﹷ" Arabic Fatha Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic fatha diacritic, specifically shaped to connect seamlessly with adjacent characters in the middle of a word within cursive Arabic script. Unlike the standard isolated fatha, which appears as a short diagonal stroke above a letter, this medial variant is designed for optimal typographic rendering in complex text layouts, often appearing as a small, raised vertical or diagonal mark that visually links the preceding and following letters. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used primarily in historical or specialized orthographic contexts, such as Quranic text or precise linguistic transcription, to ensure correct positioning and clarity when fatha appears between fully connected letterforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE77
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Fatha Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Arabic Fathah 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+064E Arabic Fatha

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﹷ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﹷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE77
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE77
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe77

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+064E Arabic Fatha
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "َ" U+064E Arabic Fatha
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