U+FEAD "ﺭ" Arabic Letter Reh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEAD "ﺭ" Arabic Letter Reh Isolated Form is a presentation form of the basic Arabic letter "Reh" (ر), specifically designed to appear as the standalone or isolated variant within a text, such as when it occurs alone or at the end of a word after a non-connecting letter. This character represents the alveolar trill or flap sound /r/ in Arabic and is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which includes contextual shapes necessary for correct typographical display. Unlike the standard Unicode Arabic letter Reh (U+0631), which changes its shape depending on its position in a word, the U+FEAD form locks the letter into its isolated glyph, ensuring consistent visual rendering primarily for legacy or compatibility purposes in digital text systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEAD
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Reh Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Ra
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺭ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺭ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEAD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEAD
C/C++/Java Escape \ufead

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 "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
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