U+FEB1 "ﺱ" Arabic Letter Seen Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEB1 "ﺱ" Arabic Letter Seen Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter seen (the equivalent of the English letter s), specifically designed to appear when the letter stands alone in a word. In the Arabic writing system, letters change shape depending on their position within a word, and the isolated form is used at the beginning of a word or when the letter occurs independently. Visually, the glyph resembles a tall, curved stroke with three distinctive teeth or points along its top, and it is written from right to left as part of the Arabic script. This character is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is typically employed in text rendering systems to ensure correct typographic display of Arabic script in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEB1
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Seen Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Seen
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺱ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺱ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEB1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEB1
C/C++/Java Escape \ufeb1

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 "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
NFKC Simple Casefold "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen
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