U+FE9B "ﺛ" Arabic Letter Theh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FE9B "ﺛ" Arabic Letter Theh Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "Theh" (ث), specifically designed to appear at the beginning of a word when written in connected Arabic script. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and represents the initial, or isolated-initial, glyph variant where the character has a right-joining tail that connects to the following letter, while its left side remains unconnected. This forms the distinctive three-dotted "th" sound common in words like "ثعلب" (fox), enabling proper cursive text rendering in word processors and digital typography.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FE9B
Name
Arabic Letter Theh Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Initial Arabic Thaa
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺛ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺛ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE9B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE9B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe9b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic