U+FEA6 "ﺦ" Arabic Letter Khah Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEA6 "ﺦ" Arabic Letter Khah Final Form is a contextual variant of the Arabic letter "خ" (Khah), used specifically when it appears at the end of a word or in an isolated position within a cursive Arabic script. This glyph represents the voiceless uvular fricative sound /x/ (like the "ch" in Scottish "loch") and is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes positional shapes for correct typographic rendering. In connected text, it appears following a preceding character that joins to it, with a distinctive tail that curves leftward and descends below the baseline, distinguishing it from the initial, medial, and isolated forms of the same letter.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEA6
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Khah Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Final Arabic Khaa
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Final
Decomposition Mapping "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺦ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺦ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEA6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEA6
C/C++/Java Escape \ufea6

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