U+FC36 "ﰶ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC36 "ﰶ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic presentation form used in Arabic script to represent the joined letters of qāf (ق) and yāʼ (ي) as a single, cursive glyph in their isolated form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which provides encoded shapes for automated text layout systems, particularly when software cannot dynamically generate the correct ligatures. Visually, it creates a compact, stylized unit where the initial qāf seamlessly transitions into the final yāʼ, preserving the right-to-left flow of Arabic calligraphy. Its use is primarily historical or for specialized typesetting, as modern Unicode rendering typically forms such ligatures algorithmically from the individual letters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC36
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Qaf 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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰶ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰶ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC36
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc36

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "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