U+FE97 "ﺗ" Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FE97 "ﺗ" Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "teh" (ت), specifically designed to appear at the beginning of a word within a cursive Arabic text. This glyph represents the initial joining position of the letter, connecting seamlessly to the following character on its left side, whereas the base form U+062A (ت) is used for isolated or general purposes. It is part of the Arabic presentation forms block, which provides positional variants to ensure proper visual rendering, and it carries the same phonetic value as the standard "teh," sounding like the English "t." This character is essential for accurate digital typesetting of Arabic script, allowing software to display words correctly in their connected cursive form.

General Properties

Code Point U+FE97
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Initial Arabic Taa
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Initial
Decomposition Mapping "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺗ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺗ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFE97
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FE97
C/C++/Java Escape \ufe97

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