U+FEC6 "ﻆ" Arabic Letter Zah Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻆ
U+FEC6 "ﻆ" Arabic Letter Zah Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Zah" (ظ), specifically designed for its final position within a word when connected to the preceding character. It is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block to facilitate text rendering and layout, representing the cursive shape the letter takes at the end of a word, where it typically features a sweeping, curved tail. This character is used in the Arabic script for languages such as Arabic, Urdu, and Persian, where it represents the voiced pharyngealized dental fricative sound, and its distinct final form is essential for accurate typography and proper textual display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEC6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Zah Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic Dhah |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEC6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufec6 |
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 |