U+FEB0 "ﺰ" Arabic Letter Zain Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEB0 "ﺰ" Arabic Letter Zain Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Zain, used specifically when the letter appears at the end of a word in cursive Arabic script. Unlike the isolated or initial forms, this final variant connects only to the preceding character to its right, featuring a distinctive tail that curves leftward and downward. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes contextual glyph shapes to support proper digital typography and text rendering in languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEB0
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Zain Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Final Arabic Zain
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Final
Decomposition Mapping "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺰ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺰ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEB0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEB0
C/C++/Java Escape \ufeb0

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