U+FED0 "ﻐ" Arabic Letter Ghain Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FED0 "ﻐ" Arabic Letter Ghain Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter ghain (ع) that is used specifically when the letter appears in the middle of a word and connects to both a preceding and following character. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual variants of Arabic letters for improved typographic rendering, and it represents the medial positional shape of the letter, characterized by a single curved descender with a connected stroke on both its right and left sides. It should be noted that modern digital text typically relies on font shaping engines to automatically select the correct form, making the direct use of this isolated Unicode representation unnecessary for most applications.

General Properties

Code Point U+FED0
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Ghain Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Medial Arabic Ghain
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Medial
Decomposition Mapping "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻐ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻐ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFED0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FED0
C/C++/Java Escape \ufed0

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