U+FEBD "ﺽ" Arabic Letter Dad Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEBD "ﺽ" Arabic Letter Dad Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Ḍād" (ض), which in its standard isolated shape is represented at code point U+0636. This specific glyph is designed for use in contexts where precise typographic rendering requires distinct forms for letters based on their position in a word, and as the isolated form, it appears when the letter stands alone or at the end of a word following a non connecting character. The letter itself is historically significant in Arabic script as it represents the emphatic "d" sound, often called "the letter of the Arabs" due to its rarity in other languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEBD
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Dad Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Dad
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﺽ
HTML Hex Encoding ﺽ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBA 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEBD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEBD
C/C++/Java Escape \ufebd

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 "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad
NFKC Simple Casefold "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad
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