U+FC0A "ﰊ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC0A "ﰊ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to represent the joined calligraphic combination of the Arabic letters Beh (ب) and Yeh (ي) in their isolated form. This character is primarily used in traditional and decorative Arabic script contexts where a single glyph is needed to stylize the two letters together, rather than writing them separately. It appears as a unified visual unit and is part of a larger set of presentation forms intended for compatibility with older text processing systems, though modern Unicode usage typically recommends representing such ligatures through standard character sequences rather than a single code point.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC0A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh 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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰊ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰊ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC0A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC0A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc0a

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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