U+FEE5 "ﻥ" Arabic Letter Noon Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEE5 "ﻥ" Arabic Letter Noon Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter noon, which represents the sound equivalent to the English letter "n." This specific codepoint is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used in typography to represent the letter when it appears in its isolated, or standalone, position within a word. Unlike the standard Unicode encoding for Arabic letters, which are typically joined to neighbors, this form is primarily utilized for precise text rendering and legacy systems, and it visually corresponds to the final shape of the letter noon, appearing as a small bowl-shaped character with a dot above it. It is important to note that modern text processing generally prefers the standard Arabic letter noon (U+0646) and relies on font shaping algorithms to produce the correct contextual forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEE5
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Noon Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Isolate Arabic Noon
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Isolated
Decomposition Mapping "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻥ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻥ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEE5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEE5
C/C++/Java Escape \ufee5

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 "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
NFKC Simple Casefold "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
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