U+FECC "ﻌ" Arabic Letter Ain Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FECC "ﻌ" Arabic Letter Ain Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter ‘Ain (ع), specifically designed to appear in the middle of a word when it connects to both preceding and following letters, taking the shape of a cursive medial glyph that features a curved, forward-reaching loop from the right. As part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, this character enables proper text rendering in environments that rely on explicit positional forms, allowing the letter to seamlessly join with adjacent characters in complex Arabic script writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+FECC
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ain Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Medial Arabic Ain
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Medial
Decomposition Mapping "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻌ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFECC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FECC
C/C++/Java Escape \ufecc

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