U+FEA9 "ﺩ" Arabic Letter Dal Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FEA9 "ﺩ" Arabic Letter Dal Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter "د" (dal), specifically designed to appear in its standalone or isolated position within a word when using connected Arabic script systems. It represents the phonetic sound of the English "d" and is one of the four contextual forms that the letter dal can take, alongside initial, medial, and final shapes, depending on its placement in a sequence of characters. This isolated form is distinct in shape, featuring a simple vertical stroke and a small loop, and is essential for proper text rendering in Arabic calligraphy and digital typography to preserve the natural flow of the script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEA9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Dal Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Dal
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"د" U+062F Arabic Letter Dal

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﺩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﺩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBA 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEA9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEA9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufea9

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	"د" U+062F Arabic Letter Dal
NFKC Simple Casefold	"د" U+062F Arabic Letter Dal
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