U+FC2B "ﰫ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC2B "ﰫ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic presentation forms block, representing the combination of the Arabic letter Ghain (غ) and the letter Jeem (ج) in their isolated form. This ligature is used in certain calligraphic or historical contexts where the two characters are conjoined into a single glyph for aesthetic or stylistic reasons, rather than representing a standard orthographic unit in modern Arabic writing. It is not a common character in everyday text but can be encountered in specialized fonts or digital renderings of classical manuscripts, where it facilitates the creation of complex visual patterns typical of Arabic calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC2B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ghain 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	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰫ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC2B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC2B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc2b

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	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "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