U+FC2D "ﰭ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC2D "ﰭ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic representation in the Arabic script that combines the letter "feh" (ف) and the letter "jeem" (ج) into a single glyph, specifically designed for use in the isolated position within a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which includes precomposed characters that were historically used in printing and digital fonts to facilitate the smooth, cursive joining of letters in Arabic calligraphy. The isolated form indicates that the ligature stands alone, not connected to any preceding or following letters, and it primarily serves an aesthetic or legacy encoding purpose, as modern Arabic text systems typically handle such ligatures through dynamic font rendering rather than individual code points.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC2D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Feh 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	"ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC2D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC2D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc2d

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	"ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "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