U+FEE7 "ﻧ" Arabic Letter Noon Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻧ
U+FEE7 "ﻧ" Arabic Letter Noon Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter noon, specifically designed to connect smoothly to the following character from its left side, as it appears at the beginning of a word or syllable in cursive Arabic script. It represents the same consonant sound as the standard noon, pronounced as the English "n", but its shape is distinct from other positional variants like the medial, final, or isolated forms. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is commonly used in text rendering systems to ensure correct visual joining and legibility in connected Arabic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEE7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Noon Initial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Initial Arabic Noon |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufee7 |
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 |