U+FEDC "ﻜ" Arabic Letter Kaf Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FEDC "ﻜ" Arabic Letter Kaf Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Kaf specifically designed for typesetting when the character appears in the middle of a word. Unlike standard Unicode Arabic characters, which are intended for logical and bidirectional text processing, this character belongs to the "Arabic Presentation Forms-B" block and represents a positional glyph variant that links to both a preceding and a following letter. Its use is typically restricted to legacy systems and compatibility with older text rendering, while modern Arabic text processing relies on the standard isolated or contextual forms of the letter through font shaping engines like OpenType or Unicode bidirectional algorithms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEDC
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Kaf Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Medial Arabic Caf
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﻜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﻜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBB 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEDC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEDC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufedc

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