U+FEB9 "" Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FEB9 "" Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form is a typographic variant of the Arabic letter "ص" (Sad), designed specifically for use in cursive Arabic script when the letter appears alone or in an isolated position within a word. This character represents the prescriptively correct form for initial or standalone contexts in many traditional calligraphic styles, such as in the beginning of a word or when it is not connected to a preceding or following letter. In modern Unicode text, it is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes these positional shapes to support historical and aesthetic rendering requirements, though contemporary Arabic fonts typically handle such contextual forms automatically through OpenType shaping, making explicit use of this character less common for standard digital text.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FEB9
Name
Arabic Letter Sad Isolated Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Isolate Arabic Sad
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﺹ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﺹ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBA 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFEB9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FEB9
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufeb9