U+FE9D "ﺝ" Arabic Letter Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FE9D "ﺝ" Arabic Letter Jeem Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Jeem (ج), specifically designed to appear in its standalone or isolated position within a word, as dictated by the rules of Arabic script for initial, medial, and final shapes. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used for typographic precision in documents where the isolated form must be explicitly encoded, rather than relying on automatic shaping. Visually, it features a distinct hook-like curve and a single dot below the body, consistent with the standard Jeem shape, and it serves to represent the consonant sound /dʒ/ in various languages that use the Arabic script, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE9D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Jeem Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Jeem
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE9D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE9D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe9d

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	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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