U+FC0C "ﰌ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC0C "ﰌ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the letters "teh" (ت) and "hah" (ح) into a single visual glyph when appearing in an isolated context. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures designed for calligraphic and typesetting purposes to correctly render historical or complex text layouts. While modern Arabic writing typically handles letter combinations through standard encoded characters and shaping algorithms, U+FC0C is preserved in Unicode to support legacy systems and precise reproduction of traditional manuscripts or decorative fonts where the two letters are fused into one unified shape. This ligature is distinct from the regular sequence of teh followed by hah, as it is precomposed specifically for the isolated form, meaning it does not connect to preceding or following letters within a word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC0C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh 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 | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc0c |
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 | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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 |