U+FEC7 "ﻇ" Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻇ
U+FEC7 "ﻇ" Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Zah (ظ), specifically designed to appear at the beginning of a word where it connects to the following character on its left. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and represents a typographic variant used in complex text layout for cursive scripts, ensuring the letter takes its correct initial shape with a rightward connecting tail. It encodes the same underlying letter as U+0638 (ظ) but serves a purely visual purpose for rendering systems that require explicit positional forms, such as in some historical or specialized digital fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEC7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Zah Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Dhah |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEC7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEC7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufec7 |
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 |