U+FBFE "ﯾ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FBFE "ﯾ" Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Yeh, specifically used in the Persian or Farsi variant, designed to appear in the initial position of a word when connected to a following character. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual glyph variants for typographic rendering, and is typically displayed with a curved, hook-like shape that differs from the isolated or final forms of the same letter. This character is not used in standard plain text but rather in specialized text processing, such as in ancient or complex script fonts, to ensure correct visual joining in words like Persian compound formations.
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Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Final Form
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Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Medial Form
General Properties
Code Point
U+FBFE
Name
Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﯾ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﯾ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xAF 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFBFE
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FBFE
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufbfe
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic