U+FEC0 "ﻀ" Arabic Letter Dad Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻀ
U+FEC0 "ﻀ" Arabic Letter Dad Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "ḍād" (ض), specifically shaped for the medial position within a word, where it connects to both a preceding and a following character. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to support complex text rendering in Arabic script by providing context-sensitive shapes for typographic accuracy. Its usage primarily occurs in legacy systems or when precise visual control is required, as modern Unicode-compliant fonts automatically generate the correct medial form from the standard Arabic letter character code.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEC0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Dad Medial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Medial Arabic Dad |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufec0 |
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 |