U+FEA7 "ﺧ" Arabic Letter Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FEA7 "ﺧ" Arabic Letter Khah Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "خ" (Khah) specifically used when it appears at the beginning of a word, connecting to the following letter to its left. It represents the voiceless uvular fricative sound /x/, similar to the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch" or the German "Bach". This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides contextual glyph variants for cursive text rendering. Its primary function is in text processing and typesetting systems that require explicit control over letter shapes, enabling accurate representation of Arabic script where the isolated or medial forms would not be appropriate.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEA7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Khah Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Khaa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEA7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufea7 |
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 |