U+FEE8 "ﻨ" Arabic Letter Noon Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻨ
U+FEE8 "ﻨ" Arabic Letter Noon Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter noon, which represents the "n" sound, and it is specifically designed to appear in the middle of a word when connected to letters on both sides within Arabic script. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is used in text processing and rendering to ensure proper cursive joining, where its shape features a distinctive tooth-like form with a single dot above, differing from the initial, isolated, or final forms of the same letter. It does not have a semantic meaning of its own but serves as a typographic variant essential for correct calligraphic and digital representation of Arabic words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEE8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Noon Medial Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Medial Arabic Noon |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Medial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufee8 |
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 |