U+FEAB "ﺫ" Arabic Letter Thal Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEAB "ﺫ" Arabic Letter Thal Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "thal" (ذ), specifically designed to appear as a standalone glyph without connecting to adjacent letters, as it would in cursive or contextual Arabic script. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was created to support legacy text rendering systems that require precomposed positional shapes rather than relying on modern shaping engines. It represents the voiced dental fricative sound, similar to the "th" in the English word "this," and is used in words like the Arabic demonstrative "ذا" (this). Isolated forms like this are typically employed in specialized contexts such as plain text environments or historical documents where automatic ligature substitution is not supported.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEAB
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Thal Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Thal
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ذ" U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺫ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺫ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEAB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEAB
C/C++/Java Escape \ufeab

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 "ذ" U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
NFKC Simple Casefold "ذ" U+0630 Arabic Letter Thal
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