U+FEF4 "ﻴ" Arabic Letter Yeh Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FEF4 "ﻴ" Arabic Letter Yeh Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Yeh, specifically designed for use in the medial (word-internal) position when rendering Arabic text in a typographic context that requires cursive shaping. This character represents the letter Yāʼ (ﻱ) in its joined middle form, appearing with connecting strokes on both sides to seamlessly integrate into the continuous, right-to-left script of written Arabic. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which exists primarily for compatibility with older text-processing systems that rely on precomposed character shapes rather than relying on modern shaping engines to automatically generate the correct form from a base character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FEF4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Letter Yeh Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name	Glyph for Medial Arabic Ya
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﻴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﻴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBB 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFEF4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FEF4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufef4

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