U+FBEA "ﯪ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FBEA "ﯪ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script that combines the letters Yeh (ي) with a Hamza diacritic above an Alef (أ), presented in its isolated form for visual harmony in certain calligraphic styles or typesetting contexts. This character represents a single glyph where the three components are fused into one continuous shape, primarily occurring in older or decorative texts that prefer ligatures over separate characters. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes such optional ligatures to preserve traditional cursive layouts, though its use is generally considered obsolete in modern digital text, where the individual characters are encoded separately for standard processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBEA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Isolated Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBEA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbea |