U+FBD8 "ﯘ" Arabic Letter U Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FBD8 "ﯘ" Arabic Letter U Final Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter waw with a specific diacritical mark, used exclusively at the end of a word in certain calligraphic or typographic contexts to represent a long 'u' sound. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which exists to preserve the precise glyph shapes required for historical or religious text rendering, such as in the Quran, where final forms like this maintain consistent visual alignment and aesthetic flow. This character is not a standard independent letter but a contextual variant that helps ensure proper cursive joining in Arabic script, where letters change shape depending on their position within a word.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FBD8
Name
Arabic Letter U Final Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﯘ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﯘ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAF 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFBD8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FBD8
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufbd8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic