U+FC1C "ﰜ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC1C "ﰜ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which combines the letters seen (س) and jeem (ج) into a single, condensed glyph specifically for use in isolated position within a word. This ligature was historically employed in certain calligraphic styles and older digital fonts to streamline the appearance of the two characters when they occur consecutively, improving visual harmony and space efficiency in printed Arabic text. However, modern Unicode standards and text rendering engines typically discourage its use in favor of standard character sequences, reserving it primarily for backward compatibility with legacy systems and specialized typographic applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC1C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen 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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC1C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC1C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc1c

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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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