U+FBF2 "ﯲ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Oe Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FBF2 "ﯲ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Oe Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent a specific combination of letters for improved visual presentation in certain languages, particularly those influenced by Persian or Ottoman Turkish orthography. This character combines a "Yeh" (ی) with a Hamza above (ء) and an "Oe" (و with a small v above, or similar variant) into a single, isolated glyph, which appears only when the sequence stands alone, not connected to surrounding letters. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a legacy encoding range intended for compatibility with older text rendering systems, and it ensures that the distinct, joined shape of this ligature is preserved in digital text, particularly in contexts where the "Oe" vowel marker is written above or alongside the Yeh-Hamza combination. This character facilitates readable rendering of words from languages like Urdu, Kashmiri, or historical Ottoman Turkish, wh
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBF2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Oe 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 "ۆ" U+06C6 Arabic Letter Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBF2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBF2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbf2 |