U+FEBC "ﺼ" Arabic Letter Sad Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEBC "ﺼ" Arabic Letter Sad Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "ص" (Sad) used specifically when it appears in the middle of a word, connecting to both the preceding and following letters in cursive Arabic script. This glyph is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms block, which provides context dependent shapes for letters to support proper typographic rendering in environments without complex text shaping engines. Unlike the isolated or final forms of Sad, the medial form features a distinctive shape that links seamlessly to adjacent characters, preserving the flowing nature of Arabic writing while representing the same phonetic value of an emphatic "s" sound. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate display and interchange of Arabic text across digital systems when legacy encoding or specific font technologies require precomposed character forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEBC
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Sad Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Medial Arabic Sad
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Medial
Decomposition Mapping "ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺼ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺼ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEBC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEBC
C/C++/Java Escape \ufebc

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