U+FC39 "ﰹ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC39 "ﰹ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the letters Kaf (ك) and Hah (ح) into a single contiguous glyph designed for the isolated position. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures intended to support complex calligraphic and typographic traditions where joining letters into a unified shape is aesthetically desirable. It represents a stylized, context-specific variant that cannot be decomposed into standard Unicode codepoints without losing its intended visual form, and it is typically rendered in Unicode compliant fonts for systems requiring precise representation of historic or ornate Arabic text.

General Properties

Code Point U+FC39
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Kaf 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 "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﰹ
HTML Hex Encoding ﰹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB0 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC39
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc39

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
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf
"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