U+FC35 "ﰵ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC35 "ﰵ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found within the Arabic block of Unicode, specifically representing the combination of the letter Qaf followed by Alef Maksura in their isolated forms within the Arabic script. This character was encoded for compatibility with legacy character sets, where such ligatures were commonly used in Arabic text processing to reflect traditional calligraphic practices. It falls within the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" range, a section of Unicode designed to accommodate precomposed shapes that appear in older standards but are generally discouraged in modern text where dynamic shaping and context sensitive rendering are preferred. The ligature visually combines the two letters into a single glyph, preserving the distinct shape of Qaf with the tail of Alef Maksura integrated seamlessly.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC35 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Qaf with Alef Maksura 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC35 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC35 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc35 |