U+FECD "ﻍ" Arabic Letter Ghain Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FECD "ﻍ" Arabic Letter Ghain Isolated Form is a glyph representation of the Arabic letter ghain (ﻍ) used specifically in calligraphic or typographic contexts when the letter appears alone and not connected to other characters, as part of the Arabic script's positional forms in the Unicode standard. This isolated form is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, serving primarily for compatibility with older text rendering systems or for representing the letter in its standalone shape, which features a distinctive curved loop with a single dot above. In modern Arabic text, the standard encoding for ghain is U+063A, and U+FECD is typically used only when precise control over the letter's isolated appearance is required, such as in specialized typesetting or historical documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+FECD
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ghain Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Ghain
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻍ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻍ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFECD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FECD
C/C++/Java Escape \ufecd

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 "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
NFKC Simple Casefold "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
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