U+FEF2 "ﻲ" Arabic Letter Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FEF2 "ﻲ" Arabic Letter Yeh Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Yeh used specifically when it appears at the end of a word and connects from the right side to a preceding character, displaying a distinctive curving tail that descends below the baseline. This glyph is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support traditional calligraphic and typographic needs, such as those found in historical texts or specialized fonts, rather than for general modern digital communication where standard Arabic Unicode encoding is recommended. Its inclusion in Unicode helps maintain compatibility with legacy systems and ensures proper rendering of complex Arabic script in certain contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEF2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Yeh Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Final Arabic Ya
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Final
Decomposition Mapping	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﻲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﻲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBB 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEF2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEF2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufef2

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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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