U+FED8 "ﻘ" Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FED8 "ﻘ" Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter qaf, specifically designed for the medial position within a word, where it connects to both the preceding and following letters. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used in contexts requiring precise typographic rendering of Arabic script, such as in older text processing systems or for preserving specific glyph shapes in documents. While it carries the same phonetic value as the standard qaf, its use is largely dependent on the chosen font and rendering engine, as modern Unicode text handling often relies on automated ligature and shaping algorithms to produce the correct contextual form from the base character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FED8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Medial Arabic Qaf
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﻘ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﻘ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBB 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFED8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FED8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufed8

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