U+FC0F "ﰏ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC0F "ﰏ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters "teh" (ت) and "alef maksura" (ى) when they appear together in their isolated form. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support complex text rendering and calligraphic styles where two or more characters are fused into a single glyph for aesthetic or readability purposes. Its use is primarily historical or stylistic rather than mandatory for modern digital text processing, as standard Unicode encoding typically handles such ligatures through font shaping and cursive joining rules, but U+FC0F provides a precomposed alternative for systems or applications that require explicit encoding of this specific visual form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC0F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh with Alef Maksura 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC0F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC0F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc0f |