U+FBEC "ﯬ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Ae Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﯬ
U+FBEC "ﯬ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Ae Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing a combination of the letter yeh with a hamza above and the vowel ae, designed specifically for the isolated form position in words. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes precomposed ligatures to support high-quality typesetting, particularly for classical or Quranic texts where such combined forms are historically or aesthetically preferred. Its presence in Unicode allows digital systems to render this specific ligature consistently across platforms, preserving the precise visual and phonetic structure of written Arabic without requiring separate character sequences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBEC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Ae 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 "ە" U+06D5 Arabic Letter Ae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbec |