U+FEB4 "ﺴ" Arabic Letter Seen Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEB4 "ﺴ" Arabic Letter Seen Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Seen (س) used specifically when the letter appears in the middle of a word within cursive Arabic script, connecting to the preceding character on the right and the following character on the left. This medial glyph differs from the isolated or final forms of Seen, as its shape features a simplified, unadorned baseline and a slightly curved, tooth-like body that allows for smooth ligature with adjacent letters. It belongs to the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" block and is intended for legacy text processing or specific typographic contexts rather than standard Unicode text, where the basic letter س (U+0633) is preferred with automatic shaping by the rendering engine.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEB4
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Seen Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Medial Arabic Seen
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Medial
Decomposition Mapping "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺴ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺴ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEB4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEB4
C/C++/Java Escape \ufeb4

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