U+FECA "" Arabic Letter Ain Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FECA "" Arabic Letter Ain Final Form is a glyph variant of the Arabic letter ʿAyn (ع), specifically designed to appear at the end of a word or in an isolated context within connected Arabic script. This final form features a distinctive curved tail and a closed loop, differing from the medial or initial shapes of the same letter. It represents the voiced pharyngeal fricative consonant /ʕ/, a sound found in Arabic and other languages using the Perso-Arabic script, and is essential for proper cursive rendering in modern digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FECA
Name
Arabic Letter Ain Final Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Final Arabic Ain
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﻊ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﻊ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBB 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFECA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FECA
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufeca