U+FC23 "ﰣ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC23 "ﰣ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script that represents the combined visual appearance of the letters "ḍād" (ض) and "ḥāʾ" (ح) when they appear together in their isolated form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a special range of Unicode designed for legacy text rendering and calligraphic styles, and it helps maintain proper spacing and aesthetic flow in Arabic typography by joining the two consonants into a single glyph. As an isolated form, it appears when these two letters are not connected to other characters on either side, often at the end of words or in specific orthographic contexts where traditional cursive joining is not applied.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC23
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah 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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰣ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC23
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc23

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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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