U+FBDB "ﯛ" Arabic Letter Yu Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ﯛ
Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FBDB "ﯛ" Arabic Letter Yu Isolated Form is a presentation form variant of the standard Arabic letter "و" (Waw), specifically used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and typesetting to represent the consonant sound /w/ or the long vowel /uː/ when it appears in an isolated, or standalone, position within a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a legacy Unicode range that provides alternative glyph shapes for letters to facilitate proper rendering in right-to-left text, often for compatibility with older encoding systems. Unlike the basic Waw, the isolated form "ﯛ" may feature a distinct, elongated or stylized curve, particularly in Naskh or similar scripts, and is employed to ensure correct contextual shaping in digital text without relying on modern OpenType ligature substitutions.

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Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﯛ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﯛ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAF 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFBDB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FBDB
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufbdb