U+FE97 ARABIC LETTER TEH INITIAL FORM: ﺗ – Unicode

U+FE97 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 Initial composition of the glyph Arabic Letter Teh. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Arabic Letter and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+FE97 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Tāw , Hebrew Tav ת‎, Aramaic Taw , Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it is also gives rise to the derived letter ث Ṯāʼ. Its original sound value is /t/.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin T, and Cyrillic Т.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	65175
UTF-8	EF BA 97
UTF-16	FE 97
UTF-32	00 00 FE 97
URL-Quoted	%EF%BA%97
HTML-Escape	ﺗ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ïº
Adobe Glyph List	tehinitialarabic
digraph	t+;

Related Characters

Confusables

Arabic Letter Teh

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	ARABIC LETTER TEH INITIAL FORM
Unicode 1 Name	GLYPH FOR INITIAL ARABIC TAA
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Arabic
Bidirectional Category	Arabic Letter
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	Initial
Decomposition Mapping	Arabic Letter Teh
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Lowercase Mapping	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Uppercase Mapping	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Titlecase Mapping	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Case Folding	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✔
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Arabic Letter Teh
NFKC Quick Check	No
NFKD Quick Check	No
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Alphabetic Letter
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Arabic Letter Teh Initial Form
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	R