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Glyph for U+FEC5
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U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form

U+FEC5 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 an isolated version of the glyph Glyph for U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah. 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+FEC5 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:

Ẓāʾ, or ḏ̣āʾ (ظ), is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ġayn). It is also one of the ten letters the Persian alphabet added from the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being s̱e, xe, ẕâl, zâd, ġayn, pe, che, že and gaf). In name and shape, it is a variant of ṭāʾ. Its numerical value is 900 (see Abjad numerals).

Ẓāʾ ظَاءْ does not change its shape depending on its position in the word:

Representations

System Representation
Nº 65221
UTF-8 EF BB 85
UTF-16 FE C5
UTF-32 00 00 FE C5
URL-Quoted %EF%BB%85
HTML hex reference ﻅ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ï»…
Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) D8
Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) D6
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 84 31 8F 35
Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) 9F
digraph zH-

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) ARABIC LETTER ZAH ISOLATED FORM
Unicode 1 Name (na1) GLYPH FOR ISOLATE ARABIC DHAH
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) isolated
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated 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+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated 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) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
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+0638 Arabic Letter Zah
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah
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+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated 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+FEC5 Arabic Letter Zah Isolated Form
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R