U+FED3 "ﻓ" Arabic Letter Feh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FED3 "ﻓ" Arabic Letter Feh Initial Form is a contextual variant of the Arabic letter "Feh" ( ف ), specifically designed to appear at the beginning of a word or syllable, where it connects smoothly to the following character from its left side in cursive Arabic script. Representing the voiceless labiodental fricative sound /f/, this initial form is distinct from the isolated, medial, or final forms of the letter and is essential for proper text rendering in modern digital typography, ensuring that Arabic words like "ﻓﻨﺠﺎن" (finjan, meaning cup) display correctly with the appropriate shape at the start of the sequence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FED3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Feh Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Fa |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFED3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FED3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufed3 |
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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh |
| 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 |