U+FC24 "ﰤ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC24 "ﰤ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing a single glyph that combines the Arabic letters Dad (ض) and Khah (خ) in their isolated forms to create a compact and aesthetically continuous shape for calligraphic and typesetting purposes. This character is used primarily in traditional and formal Arabic text to maintain visual harmony, eliminating the natural gap between the two letters when written sequentially. It serves as a stylistic variant rather than a separate linguistic unit, often appearing in historical manuscripts, Quranic scripts, and decorative writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC24
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Dad with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰤ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰤ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC24
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC24
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc24

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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