U+FBE9 "" Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FBE9 "" Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Medial Form is a presentation form glyph used in Arabic script typography to represent a specific variant of the Alef Maksura, which is a letter that typically appears as a shortened or hooked alif in word-final positions. This particular medial form is designed to sit within the middle of a word, connecting to both preceding and following characters, and it is historically employed in writing systems for languages such as Uighur, Kazakh, and Kirghiz that utilize the Arabic alphabet. Its inclusion in Unicode aids in the accurate digital rendering of these languages when typesetting complex cursive scripts, ensuring that the letter appears correctly in its appropriate positional context.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FBE9
Name
Arabic Letter Uighur Kazakh Kirghiz Alef Maksura Medial Form

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﯩ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﯩ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAF 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFBE9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FBE9
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufbe9