U+FC0D "ﰍ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC0D "ﰍ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Isolated Form is a typographic composite glyph used in the Arabic script, representing the isolated form of the ligature that combines the letters "teh" (ت) and "khah" (خ) into a single connected visual unit. This character is part of the Unicode block for Arabic Presentation Forms A, which encodes contextual variants and ligatures for compatibility with older text rendering systems, rather than for standard modern encoding. Its design streamlines cursive handwriting or calligraphy by merging the two base letters seamlessly, preserving readability when they appear in sequence at the start of a word. Although rarely used in contemporary digital Arabic text, which typically relies on dynamic shaping engines, U+FC0D remains a historical residue in the Unicode standard for legacy document conversion and typographic fidelity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC0D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰍ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰍ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC0D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC0D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc0d

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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