U+FED6 "ﻖ" Arabic Letter Qaf Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻖ
U+FED6 "ﻖ" Arabic Letter Qaf Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Qaf (ق), specifically designed to appear in its final position within a word, where it connects to the preceding character from the right. This glyph is used in Arabic script calligraphy and typography to ensure proper visual shaping, as the letter takes on a distinct curved tail that descends below the baseline in its final form, contrasting with its isolated or initial shapes. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides contextual variants to support complex text rendering in languages like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, where U+FED6 represents the sound /q/.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FED6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Qaf Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic Qaf |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFED6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FED6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufed6 |
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 |