U+FECA "ﻊ" Arabic Letter Ain Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻊ
U+FECA "ﻊ" Arabic Letter Ain Final Form is a glyph variant of the Arabic letter ʿAyn (ع), specifically designed to appear at the end of a word or in an isolated context within connected Arabic script. This final form features a distinctive curved tail and a closed loop, differing from the medial or initial shapes of the same letter. It represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative consonant /ʕ/, a sound found in Arabic and other languages using the Perso-Arabic script, and is essential for proper cursive rendering in modern digital typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FECA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Ain Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic Ain |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFECA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FECA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufeca |
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 | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain |
| 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 |