U+FE9C "ﺜ" Arabic Letter Theh Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﺜ
U+FE9C "ﺜ" Arabic Letter Theh Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter theh, specially designed to appear in the middle of a word when connected to both preceding and following letters. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, intended for use in legacy text rendering systems, as modern Unicode text typically relies on the standard Arabic character code U+062B with automatic shaping. Visually, it retains the distinctive three dots above the base form while adapting its curvature and connecting strokes to fit seamlessly in a medial position, enabling correct calligraphic flow in cursive Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE9C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Theh Medial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Medial Arabic Thaa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe9c |
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 |