U+FBFB "ﯻ" Arabic Ligature Uighur Kirghiz Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FBFB "ﯻ" Arabic Ligature Uighur Kirghiz Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Initial Form is a complex typographic ligature used in the Arabic script for specific Turkic languages, namely Uighur and Kirghiz. It combines the letters Yeh with Hamza Above and Alef Maksura into a single initial-form glyph, which appears at the beginning of a word to represent a particular vowel or consonant sound unique to these languages' orthographies. This character supports the accurate visual rendering of Arabic script texts in Uighur and Kirghiz, where such ligatures are essential for proper word formation and readability, and it is part of the Unicode standard's Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed for compatibility with older text encoding systems rather than for modern digital input.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FBFB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Uighur Kirghiz Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFBFB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FBFB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufbfb |