U+FEEF "ﻯ" Arabic Letter Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FEEF "ﻯ" Arabic Letter Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic variant used specifically when the Arabic letter alef maksura appears in isolation, meaning it is not connected to any preceding or following letters. This form is distinct from the initial, medial, and final shapes of the same letter, and it functions primarily in printed or digital Arabic text for proper calligraphic representation. The alef maksura represents the long vowel sound "ā" or a final yā-like consonant, commonly found at the end of nouns and verbs, and belongs to the Unicode block Arabic Presentation Forms-A, which is designed for contextual shaping rather than modern standard encoding sequences.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEEF
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Alef Maksura Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Isolate Arabic Alef Maqsurah
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Isolated
Decomposition Mapping	"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﻯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﻯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBB 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEEF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEEF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufeef

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	"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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