U+FC03 "ﰃ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FC03 "ﰃ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing a combined glyph for the sequence of Yeh with Hamza Above followed by Alef Maksura in their isolated forms. This character is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and text rendering to create a more cohesive and aesthetically pleasing visual appearance, where the two distinct letters are merged into a single connected shape. It is not a standard compositional unit in modern Arabic script but a specialized presentation form that may appear in historical texts or specific fonts designed to emulate traditional writing styles.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC03 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature 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 0xB0 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc03 |