U+FBF5 "ﯵ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Yu Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﯵ
U+FBF5 "ﯵ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Yu Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically designed for the final position of a word to represent a combination of the letter Yeh (ي) with a Hamza above (ئ) followed by a final form of Yeh (ی). This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is employed in certain writing systems to simplify text rendering by combining these elements into a single glyph, ensuring proper visual alignment and conformity to calligraphic conventions in languages such as Urdu or Persian. It helps maintain legibility and aesthetic consistency when the component letters appear together at the end of a word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBF5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Yu Final Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above "ۈ" U+06C8 Arabic Letter Yu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbf5 |