U+FEA8 "ﺨ" Arabic Letter Khah Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FEA8 "ﺨ" Arabic Letter Khah Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter khah (خ), specifically designed for the medial position within a word, where it connects to both the preceding and following letters. This glyph represents a contextual variant that ensures proper cursive joining in Arabic script typography, visually characterized by a distinctive upward stroke and a single dot placed above its main body. As part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, U+FEA8 is primarily used for compatibility with legacy text rendering and is not typically employed in modern Unicode-aware environments, which instead rely on the standard Arabic character U+062E and automatic shaping algorithms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEA8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Khah Medial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Medial Arabic Khaa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufea8 |
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 |