U+FEA5 "ﺥ" Arabic Letter Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEA5 "ﺥ" Arabic Letter Khah Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter "خ" (khah), which represents the voiceless velar or uvular fricative sound similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch" or the German "Bach". This specific codepoint encodes the isolated form of the letter, meaning it is used when the letter appears on its own without being connected to preceding or following letters in cursive Arabic script. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a range of characters designed to support typographic variants required for accurate text rendering and legacy digital systems. While standard Arabic text typically uses the basic letter U+062E, U+FEA5 serves specific compatibility and display purposes in certain fonts or historical encoding contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEA5
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Khah Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Khaa
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺥ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺥ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEA5
C/C++/Java Escape \ufea5

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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