U+FEDA "ﻚ" Arabic Letter Kaf Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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