U+FC01 "ﰁ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC01 "ﰁ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combination of the Arabic letter Yeh with Hamza Above (ئ) and the letter Hah (ح) joined together as a single glyph in their isolated form. This character is used in certain calligraphic and traditional Arabic text styles to improve visual harmony and spacing, particularly in older typesetting systems or in situations requiring a compact representation of the two characters. It is not a standard character for everyday writing in modern Arabic script, as its use is largely confined to specialized presentation contexts rather than general textual representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+FC01
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Hah 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
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﰁ
HTML Hex Encoding ﰁ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB0 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC01
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC01
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc01

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter