U+FE7B "ﹻ" Arabic Kasra Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE7B "ﹻ" Arabic Kasra Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic vowel diacritic kasra, which indicates an /i/ sound, specifically shaped to connect smoothly with preceding and following letters within a word. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used in advanced typography or text rendering systems to better control the appearance of Arabic script in medial positions. Unlike the standard isolated kasra, this form is designed to be placed below a connecting letter that sits in the middle of a word, ensuring proper visual alignment and fluidity in cursive writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE7B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Kasra Medial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Arabic Kasrah 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+0650 Arabic Kasra |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﹻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﹻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB9 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE7B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE7B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe7b |
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+0650 Arabic Kasra |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ِ" U+0650 Arabic Kasra |
| 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 |