U+FC04 "ﰄ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC04 "ﰄ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the specific combination of a Yeh with a Hamza above followed by a second Yeh, displayed in an isolated formatting context. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to encode contextual and calligraphic variants of Arabic letters that appear in traditional typesetting. The ligature ensures correct visual representation in text where two separate characters would otherwise require manual spacing or shaping adjustments, and it is particularly common in Quranic and classical Arabic manuscripts. U+FC04 is not typically used for modern digital text input but rather for specialized textual rendering and preservation of historical orthographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC04 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc04 |