U+FBF9 "ﯹ" Arabic Ligature Uighur Kirghiz Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FBF9 "ﯹ" Arabic Ligature Uighur Kirghiz Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a special typographic glyph used in the Arabic script for writing the Uighur and Kirghiz languages, where it represents a ligature combining the letter Yeh with a Hamza placed above it and an Alef Maksura (a final, shortened form of the letter Alef) in its isolated form. This ligature efficiently encodes a common orthographic sequence in these languages, allowing for a single character to represent a specific phonetic combination that typically appears in word-initial or isolated positions, thereby aiding in text rendering and digital representation of these Central Asian Turkic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBF9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Uighur Kirghiz Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﯹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﯹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAF 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbf9 |