U+FC32 "ﰲ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC32 "ﰲ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature specifically used in the Arabic script, combining the letter Feh (representing the sound "f") with Yeh (representing the sound "y" or long "i") into a single, compact visual unit. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is classified as an isolated form, meaning it appears in its standalone shape without connecting to adjacent letters. Its primary purpose is to support elegant, joined-up calligraphic text display in contexts like historical manuscripts or advanced digital typography, where stylistic ligatures enhance readability or aesthetic flow. However, it is not typically used in standard modern Arabic text, as most writing systems prefer separate, non-ligature characters for general encoding and keyboard input.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC32
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Feh with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC32
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC32
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc32

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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