U+FE98 "ﺘ" Arabic Letter Teh Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﺘ
U+FE98 "ﺘ" Arabic Letter Teh Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "teh" (ت) designed for use in the middle of a word when the script is rendered in connected, cursive style. Unlike the isolated or initial forms, this medial variant features a specific shape that links smoothly to both the preceding and following characters, with a distinctive horizontal tail extending to the right from the main body of the letter. It belongs to the Unicode block of Arabic Presentation Forms B, which encodes contextual glyph variants to support traditional typography and legacy text rendering, ensuring that the letter retains its correct joining behavior and visual consistency within Arabic script writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE98 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Teh Medial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Medial Arabic Taa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe98 |
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 |