U+FC13 "ﰓ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC13 "ﰓ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing a connected glyph that combines the letter "Theh" (ث) with "Alef Maksura" (ى) into a single visual unit when appearing in their isolated forms. This character is used primarily in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and legacy text rendering to create a more compact or aesthetically pleasing representation of the two consecutive letters, though it is not typically required for standard modern digital text processing. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the faithful preservation of historical or stylized documents where such ligatures were employed.

General Properties

Code Point U+FC13
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Theh 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 "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﰓ
HTML Hex Encoding ﰓ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB0 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC13
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC13
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc13

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 "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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