U+FEC3 "ﻃ" Arabic Letter Tah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻃ
U+FEC3 "ﻃ" Arabic Letter Tah Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "ṭāʾ" (ط), specifically designed to connect to the following letter in a word, as it appears at the beginning of a word or syllable in cursive Arabic script. It represents the voiceless pharyngealized alveolar plosive sound /tˤ/ and is primarily used in Arabic, Persian, and other languages written with the Arabic alphabet for proper textual rendering in digital environments. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is not intended for plain text storage, where the standard isolated letter "ط" (U+0637) is preferred, but rather for legacy display systems that require explicit glyph selection.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEC3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Tah Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Tah |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufec3 |
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 | "ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah |
| 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 |