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Glyph for U+FED8
Source: Noto Sans Arabic

U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form

U+FED8 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 medial version of the glyph Glyph for U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf. 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+FED8 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:

Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic qāf ق‎, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק‎, Phoenician qōp 𐤒, and Syriac qōp̄ ܩ.

Its original sound value was a West Semitic emphatic stop, presumably [kʼ]. In Hebrew numerals, it has the numerical value of 100.

Representations

System Representation (click value to copy)
Nº 65240
UTF-8 EF BB 98
UTF-16 FE D8
UTF-32 00 00 FE D8
URL-Quoted %EF%BB%98
HTML hex reference ﻘ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ﻘ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 84 31 91 34
Adobe Glyph List qafmedialarabic
digraph q+.
RFC 5137 \u'FED8'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e\uFED8
C and C++ \uFED8
C# \uFED8
CSS \00FED8
Excel =UNICHAR(65240)
Go \uFED8
JavaScript \uFED8
Modern JavaScript since ES6\u{fed8}
JSON \uFED8
Java \uFED8
Lua \u{FED8}
Matlab char(65240)
Perl "\x{FED8}"
PHP \u{fed8}
PostgreSQL U&'\FED8'
PowerShell `u{FED8}
Python \uFED8
Ruby \u{fed8}
Rust \u{fed8}
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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) ARABIC LETTER QAF MEDIAL FORM
Unicode 1 Name (na1) GLYPH FOR MEDIAL ARABIC QAF
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) medial
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial 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+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial 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+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf
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+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial 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+FED8 Arabic Letter Qaf Medial Form
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) R