U+FE96 "ﺖ" Arabic Letter Teh Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE96 "ﺖ" Arabic Letter Teh Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter 'teh' used exclusively at the end of a word, where it appears as a closed, looped shape with a horizontal stroke that distinguishes it from its medial or initial forms. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is employed in complex text layout to ensure proper cursive joining and visual harmony in scripts like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate rendering of connected Arabic text, reflecting the rules of Arabic calligraphy where letters change shape based on position within a word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE96 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Teh Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic Taa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe96 |
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 | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh |
| 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 |