U+FE9F "ﺟ" Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FE9F "ﺟ" Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Jeem, which represents the sound "j" as in "jump" and is used exclusively at the beginning of a word or syllable where it connects to the following letter. This character derives from the standard isolated form ج but adopts a specific shape with a curved tail and a single dot below, designed for cursive writing in scripts like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides variant glyphs to properly render joined text in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FE9F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Jeem |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFE9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FE9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufe9f |
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 |