U+FECE "ﻎ" Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FECE "ﻎ" Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter ghain (غ), specifically shaped to appear at the end of a word when it is connected to a preceding character. This glyph represents the voiced velar fricative sound /ɣ/ in various languages using the Persian and Arabic scripts, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, and its contextual final form is distinct from its isolated or initial counterparts, designed to join fluidly with the preceding consonant while maintaining its characteristic descending tail.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻎ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻎ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFECE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FECE
C/C++/Java Escape \ufece

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