U+FC07 "ﰇ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC07 "ﰇ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to represent the joined calligraphic rendering of the two Arabic letters beh (ب) and khah (خ) in their isolated (standalone) form. This character is used in certain traditional or decorative Arabic scripts, such as in early typesetting or Qur’anic orthography, where the combined glyph simplifies the visual appearance of the letter sequence by merging them into a single, distinct shape. It is primarily a compatibility character intended for specialized applications and is not typically used in modern standard Arabic writing, where the two letters are usually written separately.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC07
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰇ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC07
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC07
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc07

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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