U+FC33 "ﰳ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC33 "ﰳ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, specifically representing the sequential combination of the letter qaf (ق) followed by hah (ح) as a single joined glyph in its isolated form, meaning it appears standalone rather than connected to adjacent characters. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed for compatibility with older text rendering systems and digital fonts that required precomposed ligatures to display complex cursive connections correctly. Its primary purpose is to ensure accurate visual representation in contexts where automatic ligature shaping may not be supported, though modern Unicode rendering typically handles such combinations through dynamic glyph substitution.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC33
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Qaf 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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰳ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰳ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC33
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC33
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc33

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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "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