U+FE8F "" Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FE8F "" Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Beh, specifically designed to appear in its standalone, unattached shape as it would at the beginning of a word or in isolation, distinct from its initial, medial, or final contextual variants. This character corresponds to the base letter U+0628 "ب" but is encoded separately in the Unicode standard to facilitate precise typographic rendering in legacy systems or for specific layout requirements, though modern text processing typically prefers the general Arabic letter and relies on shaping engines to automatically produce the isolated form.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FE8F
Name
Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Isolate Arabic Baa
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺏ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺏ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE8F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE8F
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe8f