U+FBA2 "ﮢ" Arabic Letter Rnoon Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FBA2 "ﮢ" Arabic Letter Rnoon Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Rnoon," which is a ligature of "Reh" (ر) and "Noon" (ن) used in certain writing styles, particularly in the Urdu and some other South Asian scripts. This character represents the initial position variant of this ligature, meaning it appears at the beginning of a word where it connects to the following letter. It is included in the Unicode standard as part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes contextual glyph variants to support proper cursive rendering in digital typography, though its use is generally historical or specialized rather than mandatory in modern text processing.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FBA2
Name
Arabic Letter Rnoon Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﮢ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﮢ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAE 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFBA2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FBA2
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufba2
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic