U+FE86 "ﺆ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Final Form Unicode Character

U+FE86 "ﺆ" Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter waw (و) combined with a hamza diacritic (ء) placed above it, specifically designed to appear in the final position of a word in certain typographic contexts. This character represents a variation of the base letter used in Arabic script, where the hamza indicates a glottal stop sound, and its final form is typically narrower and more curved than the isolated or initial shapes. U+FE86 is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes glyph variants for compatibility with older text rendering systems, ensuring that digital fonts display the correct shape for words ending with this ligature in styles like Naskh or Nastaliq.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE86
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Final Arabic Hamzah on Waw
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Final
Decomposition Mapping	"ؤ" U+0624 Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺆ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺆ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE86
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE86
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe86

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	"ؤ" U+0624 Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ؤ" U+0624 Arabic Letter Waw with Hamza Above
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