U+FE9B "ﺛ" Arabic Letter Theh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﺛ
U+FE9B "ﺛ" Arabic Letter Theh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Theh" (ث), specifically designed to appear at the beginning of a word when written in connected Arabic script. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and represents the initial, or isolated-initial, glyph variant where the character has a right-joining tail that connects to the following letter, while its left side remains unconnected. This forms the distinctive three-dotted "th" sound common in words like "ثعلب" (fox), enabling proper cursive text rendering in word processors and digital typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE9B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Theh Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Thaa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe9b |
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 | "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh |
| 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 |