U+FE9F "" Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FE9F "" Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Jeem, which represents the sound "j" as in "jump" and is used exclusively at the beginning of a word or syllable where it connects to the following letter. This character derives from the standard isolated form ج but adopts a specific shape with a curved tail and a single dot below, designed for cursive writing in scripts like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides variant glyphs to properly render joined text in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FE9F
Name
Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Initial Arabic Jeem
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺟ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺟ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFE9F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FE9F
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufe9f