U+FEAF "ﺯ" Arabic Letter Zain Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEAF "ﺯ" Arabic Letter Zain Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter zain, which represents the voiced dental fricative sound similar to the English "z". This specific glyph belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used exclusively when the letter appears in its isolated position, meaning it is not connected to any preceding or following characters within a word. The isolated form differs from the initial, medial, and final forms of the letter, which are encoded separately to reflect calligraphic variations in Arabic script writing. In modern standard Arabic, this character is commonly employed in printed texts and digital typography to ensure proper visual representation of the letter when it stands alone or at the beginning of a word.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEAF
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Zain Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Zain
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺯ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEAF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEAF
C/C++/Java Escape \ufeaf

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 "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain
NFKC Simple Casefold "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain
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