U+FECB "" Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FECB "" Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form is a glyph variant of the Arabic letter "ع" (ʿAyn), representing its isolated or initial positional form where it connects to the following character in a word. This initial shape, characterized by a curved, open loop at the beginning of the stroke, is used in Arabic script to denote the voiced pharyngeal fricative consonant sound /ʕ/, a distinctive phoneme in Arabic and several other languages that employ the Arabic alphabet, such as Persian and Urdu. Its presence as a separate Unicode code point allows for precise typographic rendering in digital text, ensuring that the correct form appears according to the rules of cursive Arabic writing.

General Properties

Code Point
U+FECB
Name
Arabic Letter Ain Initial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Initial Arabic Ain
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﻋ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﻋ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBB 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFECB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FECB
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufecb