U+FEED "ﻭ" Arabic Letter Waw Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﻭ
U+FEED "ﻭ" Arabic Letter Waw Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter waw, used in the initial, medial, or final position of a word when it stands alone or appears in certain typographic contexts. This character represents the consonant sound "w" or the long vowel "ū" in Arabic script, and its isolated form is visually distinct from the connected variants (initial, medial, and final) that appear when the letter joins with neighboring characters. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block within Unicode, designed to support legacy text rendering and specific calligraphic styles where precise letter forms are required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FEED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Letter Waw Isolated Form |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Glyph for Isolate Arabic Waw |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﻭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﻭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBB 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFEED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FEED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufeed |
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 | "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "و" U+0648 Arabic Letter Waw |
| 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 |