U+FEC5 "ﻅ" Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FEC5 "ﻅ" Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form is a typographic variation of the Arabic letter Zah (ظ), specifically designed to appear in its standalone or isolated position within a word. This form is one of the contextual shapes that Arabic letters take depending on their placement, and it is used when the letter begins or stands alone, without connecting to a preceding character. As part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, this character supports proper text rendering in digital environments, ensuring that the letter retains its distinctive appearance and joins correctly with adjacent letters in cursive script systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEC5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Dhah |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEC5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufec5 |
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 | "ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah |
| 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 |