U+FC2E "ﰮ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC2E "ﰮ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that combines the Arabic letters Fēh (ف) and Hah (ح) into a single, connected glyph for use in sophisticated text rendering, particularly in calligraphic styles and traditional Arabic script. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to represent contextual letter forms that are not encoded separately in the standard Arabic alphabet block. It is intended for use in isolated contexts, meaning it appears when the ligature stands alone rather than connected to other characters in a word. While modern Unicode encoding generally prefers dynamic shaping via cursive connectors, this specific precomposed ligature exists to support legacy systems or specialized display requirements in older software. Despite its technical presence, it is rarely needed for ordinary modern Arabic text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC2E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Feh 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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc2e |
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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "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 |