U+FECB "ﻋ" Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻋ
U+FECB "ﻋ" Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form is a glyph variant of the Arabic letter "ع" (ʿAyn), representing its isolated or initial positional form where it connects to the following character in a word. This initial shape, characterized by a curved, open loop at the beginning of the stroke, is used in Arabic script to denote the voiced pharyngeal fricative consonant sound /ʕ/, a distinctive phoneme in Arabic and several other languages that employ the Arabic alphabet, such as Persian and Urdu. Its presence as a separate Unicode code point allows for precise typographic rendering in digital text, ensuring that the correct form appears according to the rules of cursive Arabic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FECB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Ain |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFECB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FECB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufecb |
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 |