U+FE72 "ﹲ" Arabic Dammatan Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FE72 "ﹲ" Arabic Dammatan Isolated Form is a typographic variant used in Arabic script to represent the grammatical marker known as dammatan, which indicates the nominative case of an indefinite noun. This specific form is designed for use when the character stands alone, rather than connecting to adjacent letters, making it an isolated presentation form. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides contextual glyphs for legacy text rendering, and it corresponds to the standard Arabic character U+064C "ٌ" (dammatan). In digital typography, this isolated form helps maintain proper spacing and visual alignment in complex text layouts, particularly in older software or documents that rely on these specific codepoints.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FE72
Name
Arabic Dammatan Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Arabic Spacing Dammatan
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﹲ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﹲ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB9 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE72
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE72
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe72
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic