U+FED5 "ﻕ" Arabic Letter Qaf Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻕ
U+FED5 "ﻕ" Arabic Letter Qaf Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter qaf, specifically designed for use in cursive Arabic script when the letter stands alone without connecting to adjacent letters. Visually, it resembles a loop with a descending tail or a small bowl shape, and it represents the emphatic voiceless uvular plosive sound /q/ in standard Arabic. This isolated form is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, which provides typographic variants to achieve proper joining and shaping in text rendering, ensuring that the letter appears correctly in contexts where ligature or positional shaping is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FED5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Qaf Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Qaf |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFED5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FED5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufed5 |
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 | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf |
| 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 |