U+FB16 "ﬖ" Armenian Small Ligature Vew Now Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﬖ
U+FB16 "ﬖ" Armenian Small Ligature Vew Now is a presentation form glyph used in the Armenian script, specifically a ligature that combines the letters Vew (վ) and Now (ն). It was encoded in the Unicode standard to support historic or stylized typographic conventions where the two characters are fused into a single visual unit, primarily for compatibility with older text or specialized fonts. This character falls within the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block and is distinct from the standard sequence of separate Vew and Now characters, serving to preserve the exact appearance of printed Armenian texts that employ such ligatures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB16 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Ligature Vew Now |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "վ" U+057E Armenian Small Letter Vew "ն" U+0576 Armenian Small Letter Now |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb16 |