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Glyph for U+FDFC
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+FDFC Rial Sign

U+FDFC was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block U+FB50 to U+FDFF Arabic Presentation Forms-A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Currency Symbol and is mainly used in the Arabic script.

The glyph is an isolated composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh, Glyph for U+06CC Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh, Glyph for U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef, Glyph for U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam. 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. U+FDFC prohibits a line break before it, if it follows a number. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “rial” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: currency.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Rial, riyal, or RIAL may refer to:

  • Rial (surname), a surname (and list of people with the name)
  • Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, McGill University
  • Rial Racing, a former German Formula One team

Various currencies named rial, riyal or riel (derived from Spanish/Portuguese real):

  • Iranian rial, the currency of Iran
  • Omani rial, the currency of Oman
  • Yemeni rial, the currency of Yemen
  • Cambodian riel, the currency of Cambodia
  • Moroccan rial, a former currency of Morocco
  • Tunisian rial, a former currency of Tunisia
  • The Hejaz riyal
  • The Qatari riyal
  • The Saudi riyal
  • A popular nickname for the 20-piastre Egyptian coin
  • A popular nickname for the 5-santimat Moroccan coin
  • Alriyal Alfransi (lit. French Riyal), the Arab name for the Maria Theresa thaler

Representations

System Representation
Nº 65020
UTF-8 EF B7 BC
UTF-16 FD FC
UTF-32 00 00 FD FC
URL-Quoted %EF%B7%BC
HTML hex reference ﷼
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ï·¼

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.2 (2002)
Unicode Name (na) RIAL SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category (gc) Currency Symbol
Script (sc) Arabic
Bidirectional Category (bc) Arabic Letter
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) isolated
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh Glyph for U+06CC Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Glyph for U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef Glyph for U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh Glyph for U+06CC Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Glyph for U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef Glyph for U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh Glyph for U+06CC Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh Glyph for U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef Glyph for U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✔
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Postfix Numeric
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+FDFC Rial Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R