U+FEB3 "ﺳ" Arabic Letter Seen Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FEB3 "ﺳ" Arabic Letter Seen Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "seen" (س), specifically designed for the initial position of a word where it connects to the following character from the right. It represents the consonant sound /s/ and is part of the Arabic script's contextual shaping system, where letters change form based on their position within a word. This character is primarily used in text rendering systems to display the correct typographic shape for Arabic text, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard for compatibility with legacy font encoding and to support precise rendering in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEB3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Seen Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Seen |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufeb3 |
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 |