U+FED7 "ﻗ" Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FED7 "ﻗ" Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form is a presentation form variant of the Arabic letter Qaf (ﻕ), specifically designed to connect to following letters within a word. While the standard isolated form of Qaf represents the uvular /q/ sound, this glyph appears in the initial position of Arabic script words, where it takes a distinctive rightward connecting tail and a simplified body shape. It belongs to the block of Arabic Presentation Forms-B, which encodes contextual glyph shapes for compatibility with older text rendering systems, though modern shaping engines typically handle such positional variants automatically.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FED7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Qaf Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Qaf |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFED7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FED7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufed7 |
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 |