U+FE7F "ﹿ" Arabic Sukun Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FE7F "ﹿ" Arabic Sukun Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic diacritical mark sukun, which indicates the absence of a vowel on a consonant, specifically designed to appear in the medial position within a word for typographic or calligraphic purposes. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used in complex text layout for languages written in the Arabic script, where the diacritic's shape may be adjusted to connect seamlessly with surrounding characters. This character is primarily intended for compatibility with older text processing systems and fonts that require explicit positional forms, though modern Unicode encoding typically uses the generic sukun character (U+0652) combined with a shaping engine to handle letter connections automatically.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE7F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Sukun Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Arabic Sukun 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+0652 Arabic Sukun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﹿ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﹿ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE7F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE7F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe7f

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+0652 Arabic Sukun
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "ْ" U+0652 Arabic Sukun
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