U+FC38 "ﰸ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC38 "ﰸ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically encoding the combined graphical form of the letters Kaf (ك) and Jeem (ج) when they appear in an isolated (standalone) position. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed for legacy text rendering and compatibility with older digital fonts. Its purpose is to represent a single visual glyth that merges these two consonants, reflecting historical calligraphic practices where such combinations are written as a connected unit. While modern Unicode text typically uses individual character sequences with a zero-width joiner for ligature control, U+FC38 persists as a static representation for systems requiring predefined joined forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC38
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf with Jeem 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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC38
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC38
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc38

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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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