U+FEB3 "ﺳ" Arabic Letter Seen Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FEB3 "ﺳ" Arabic Letter Seen Initial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter "seen" (س), specifically designed for the initial position of a word where it connects to the following character from the right. It represents the consonant sound /s/ and is part of the Arabic script's contextual shaping system, where letters change form based on their position within a word. This character is primarily used in text rendering systems to display the correct typographic shape for Arabic text, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard for compatibility with legacy font encoding and to support precise rendering in digital environments.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FEB3
Name
Arabic Letter Seen Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Initial Arabic Seen
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺳ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺳ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFEB3
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FEB3
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufeb3
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic