U+FB94 Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form
U+FB94 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic Presentation Forms-A in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is an initial version of the glyph Arabic Letter Gaf. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written as Arabic letter from right to left. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+FB94 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Gaf (Persian: گاف; gāf), is the name of different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing /ɡ/. They are all derived from the letter kāf, with additional diacritics, such as dots and lines. It is also one of the ten letters the Persian alphabet added from the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being s̱e, xe, ẕâl, zâd, ẓâ, ġayn, pe, che, and že). In name and shape, it is a variant of kaf. Its numerical value is 5000 (see Abjad numerals). There are four forms, each used in different alphabets:
- گ in the Persian alphabet, Tausug written in Arabic Script
- ݢ in the Jawi script
- ࢴ/ڮ in the Pegon script
- ګ in Pashto
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 64404 |
| UTF-8 | EF AE 94 |
| UTF-16 | FB 94 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FB 94 |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%AE%94 |
| HTML hex reference | ﮔ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ï®” |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | E6 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 30 C1 30 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | B9 |
| Adobe Glyph List | gafinitialarabic |
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Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER GAF INITIAL FORM | |
| — | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-A | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| initial | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf | |
| No | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Gaf Initial Form | |
| R |