Home U+FE70 to U+FEFF Arabic Presentation Forms-B
Glyph for U+FECE
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form

U+FECE was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FE70 to U+FEFF Arabic Presentation Forms-B in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Arabic script.

The glyph is a final version of the glyph Glyph for U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain. 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+FECE 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:

The Arabic letter غ‎ (Arabic: غَيْنْ, ghayn or ġayn) is the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being thāʼ, khāʼ, dhāl, ḍād, ẓāʼ). It represents the sound /ɣ/ or /ʁ/. In name and shape, it is a variant of ʻayn (ع‎). Its numerical value is 1000 (see Abjad numerals). In the Persian language, it represents [ɣ]~[ɢ] and is the twenty-second letter in the new Persian alphabet.

Ghayn is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:

Representations

System Representation
Nº 65230
UTF-8 EF BB 8E
UTF-16 FE CE
UTF-32 00 00 FE CE
URL-Quoted %EF%BB%8E
HTML hex reference ﻎ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ﻎ
Adobe Glyph List ghainfinalarabic
digraph i+,

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) ARABIC LETTER GHAIN FINAL FORM
Unicode 1 Name (na1) GLYPH FOR FINAL ARABIC GHAIN
Block (blk) Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Arabic
Bidirectional Category (bc) Arabic Letter
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) final
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
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+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
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+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain
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 Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
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+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
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) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R