U+FC06 "ﰆ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC06 "ﰆ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combined form of the letters Beh (ب) and Hah (ح) when they appear together in an isolated position, meaning it is used when the ligature stands alone rather than connecting to preceding or following characters. This character was encoded for compatibility with older text processing systems and fonts that required precomposed forms for aesthetic or calligraphic purposes, allowing a single glyph to display the joined sequence of Beh and Hah as a seamless unit. While modern Unicode text typically uses separate characters with automatic shaping through font rendering, U+FC06 remains valuable for preserving the exact visual appearance of historical documents and specialized layouts where the ligature must be represented as a distinct code point.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC06 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Beh 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 | "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC06 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc06 |
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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "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 |