U+FE8F "ﺏ" Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE8F "ﺏ" Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Beh, specifically designed to appear in its standalone, unattached shape as it would at the beginning of a word or in isolation, distinct from its initial, medial, or final contextual variants. This character corresponds to the base letter U+0628 "ب" but is encoded separately in the Unicode standard to facilitate precise typographic rendering in legacy systems or for specific layout requirements, though modern text processing typically prefers the general Arabic letter and relies on shaping engines to automatically produce the isolated form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE8F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Baa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe8f |
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 | "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh |
| 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 |