U+FE8F Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form
U+FE8F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Arabic Presentation Forms-B in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.
The glyph is an isolated version of the glyph Arabic Letter Beh. 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+FE8F 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:
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic bāʾ ب, Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Hebrew bēt ב, Phoenician bēt 𐤁, and Syriac bēṯ ܒ. Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩.
The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayīṯ, Phoenician bēt etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to, among others, the Greek beta (Β, β), Latin B (B, b) and Cyrillic Be (Б, б) and Ve (В, в).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65167 |
| UTF-8 | EF BA 8F |
| UTF-16 | FE 8F |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FE 8F |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BA%8F |
| HTML hex reference | ﺏ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ïº |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | A9 |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | B3 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 8A 31 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 57 |
| digraph | b+- |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER BEH ISOLATED FORM | |
| GLYPH FOR ISOLATE ARABIC BAA | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| isolated | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| No | |
| Arabic Letter Beh | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Beh Isolated Form | |
| R |