U+FC19 "ﰙ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC19 "ﰙ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature combining the Arabic letters Khah (خ) and Jeem (ج) into a single connected glyph, specifically designed for the isolated position where it stands alone within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures that support calligraphic and traditional text rendering, particularly in older or specialized fonts. It represents a graphical convenience for accurately displaying the joined forms of these two consonants in certain contexts, ensuring proper visual shaping in accordance with Arabic script rules.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC19
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Khah with Jeem 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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰙ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰙ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC19
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC19
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc19

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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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