U+FE9F Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form
U+FE9F 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 initial version of the glyph Arabic Letter Jeem. 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+FE9F 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:
Gimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic ǧīm ج, Aramaic gāmal 𐡂, Hebrew gīmel ג, Phoenician gīml 𐤂, and Syriac gāmal ܓ. Its sound value in the original Phoenician and in all derived alphabets, except Arabic, is a voiced velar plosive [ɡ]; in Modern Standard Arabic, it represents either a /d͡ʒ/ or /ʒ/ for most Arabic speakers except in Northern Egypt, the southern parts of Yemen and some parts of Oman where it is pronounced as the voiced velar plosive [ɡ] (see below).
In its Proto-Canaanite form, the letter may have been named after a weapon that was either a staff sling or a throwing stick (spear thrower), ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph based on the hieroglyph below:
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek gamma (Γ), the Latin C, G, Ɣ and Ȝ, and the Cyrillic Г, Ґ, and Ғ.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65183 |
| UTF-8 | EF BA 9F |
| UTF-16 | FE 9F |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FE 9F |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BA%9F |
| HTML hex reference | ﺟ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﺟ |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | CC |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | BF |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 8B 37 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | 68 |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 68 |
| Adobe Glyph List | jeeminitialarabic |
| digraph | g+; |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER JEEM INITIAL FORM | |
| GLYPH FOR INITIAL ARABIC JEEM | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| initial | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem | |
| No | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Jeem Initial Form | |
| R |