U+FED4 "ﻔ" Arabic Letter Feh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FED4 "ﻔ" Arabic Letter Feh Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Feh" (ف) used specifically in Arabic script when the letter appears in the medial position of a word, connecting to the preceding character on its right and the following character on its left. This form differs from the isolated or final forms of Feh as it has a distinctive shape with a forward connecting stroke and a notched baseline, allowing it to seamlessly integrate into continuous cursive writing. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support legacy text rendering and specific typographic needs, though modern Unicode usage typically relies on the general Arabic block and shaping algorithms to automatically display the correct form based on context.

General Properties

Code Point U+FED4
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Feh Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Medial Arabic Fa
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Medial
Decomposition Mapping "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻔ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFED4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FED4
C/C++/Java Escape \ufed4

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