U+FECE Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form
U+FECE 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 a final version of the glyph 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 /ɣajn/) 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 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, ẓâ, pe, che, že and gaf). 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 |
| Encoding: CP864 (hex bytes) | ED |
| Encoding: CP1006 (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 90 34 |
| Encoding: CP1097 (hex bytes) | AF |
| Encoding: CP420 (hex bytes) | 9F |
| Adobe Glyph List | ghainfinalarabic |
| digraph | i+, |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| ARABIC LETTER GHAIN FINAL FORM | |
| GLYPH FOR FINAL ARABIC GHAIN | |
| Arabic Presentation Forms-B | |
| Other Letter | |
| Arabic | |
| Arabic Letter | |
| Not Reordered | |
| final | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| No | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Arabic Letter Ghain Final Form | |
| R |