U+FED6 "ﻖ" Arabic Letter Qaf Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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