U+FC05 "ﰅ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC05 "ﰅ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the joined combination of the letters Beh (ب) and Jeem (ج) in their isolated form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to encode precomposed ligatures for compatibility with older text rendering systems. When displayed, it appears as a single glyph where the Beh and Jeem characters are visually connected, reflecting a common calligraphic practice in Arabic handwriting and typesetting. However, its use is now largely discouraged in modern digital contexts, as contemporary Unicode text rendering relies on dynamic shaping algorithms to correctly form ligatures from individual characters, making U+FC05 a legacy compatibility character rather than a standard encoding for ordinary Arabic text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC05
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem 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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰅ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰅ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC05
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC05
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc05

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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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