U+FEBA "ﺺ" Arabic Letter Sad Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FEBA "ﺺ" Arabic Letter Sad Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "sad" specifically used when it appears at the end of a word, connecting to the preceding letter on its right but not to any letter that follows. This glyph is part of the Unicode standard's Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to facilitate correct typographic rendering in legacy text or systems that require explicit positional variants. In written Arabic, the final form of "sad" features a distinctive curved tail that extends below the baseline, distinguishing it from its isolated, initial, or medial counterparts and ensuring proper word shape and readability in manuscripts and digital fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEBA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Sad Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic Sad |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﺺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﺺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBA 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEBA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufeba |
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 | "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad |
| 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 |