U+FC29 "ﰩ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC29 "ﰩ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature representing the visual combination of the Arabic letters Ain (ع) and Jeem (ج) joined together in their isolated form, as they would appear when written separately but merged for calligraphic or typesetting convenience. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed primarily for compatibility with legacy text encoding systems and complex script rendering. While it preserves the phonetic value of the two consecutive consonants, its use today is largely obsolete in modern digital text, as contemporary Unicode rendering engines can seamlessly generate proper ligatures and contextual forms through shaping rules, making such precomposed characters redundant outside of specialized historical or archival contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC29
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ain 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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰩ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰩ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC29
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC29
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc29

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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "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