U+FEDA "ﻚ" Arabic Letter Kaf Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻚ
U+FEDA "ﻚ" Arabic Letter Kaf Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Kaf, specifically designed to appear at the end of a word within a text that uses Arabic script. It represents the contextual glyph shape required for proper calligraphic and typographic rendering, as Arabic letters change form based on their position in a word (initial, medial, final, or isolated). This particular final form features a distinctive curved tail and is used to ensure visual consistency in connected script, appearing in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block of Unicode for compatibility with legacy encoding standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEDA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Kaf Final Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Final Arabic Caf |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEDA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufeda |
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 | "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf |
| 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 |