U+FEDC "ﻜ" Arabic Letter Kaf Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FEDC "ﻜ" Arabic Letter Kaf Medial Form is a presentation form of the Arabic letter Kaf specifically designed for typesetting when the character appears in the middle of a word. Unlike standard Unicode Arabic characters, which are intended for logical and bidirectional text processing, this character belongs to the "Arabic Presentation Forms-B" block and represents a positional glyph variant that links to both a preceding and a following letter. Its use is typically restricted to legacy systems and compatibility with older text rendering, while modern Arabic text processing relies on the standard isolated or contextual forms of the letter through font shaping engines like OpenType or Unicode bidirectional algorithms.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FEDC
Name
Arabic Letter Kaf Medial Form
Unicode 1.0 Name
Glyph for Medial Arabic Caf
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﻜ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﻜ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBB 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFEDC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FEDC
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufedc
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic