U+FEEB "ﻫ" Arabic Letter Heh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FEEB "ﻫ" Arabic Letter Heh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "heh" used specifically when it appears in the initial position of a word, connecting to the following letter to its left in flowing Arabic script. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to support correct typographic rendering of the letter's shape as it arches outward from the preceding character. It represents the same consonant sound as the standard "heh" (pronounced like the English "h"), but its visual appearance features a long, curved tail that extends above and below the baseline, distinguishing it from its isolated or medial forms. In digital text, this character enables precise display of calligraphic styles in documents, ensuring that the letter seamlessly joins with subsequent letters according to Arabic writing conventions.

General Properties

Code Point U+FEEB
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Heh Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name Glyph for Initial Arabic Ha
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Initial
Decomposition Mapping "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﻫ
HTML Hex Encoding ﻫ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBB 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFEEB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FEEB
C/C++/Java Escape \ufeeb

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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
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