U+FECC "ﻌ" Arabic Letter Ain Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻌ
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 |