U+FC3D "ﰽ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC3D "ﰽ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combined visual form of the letter Kaf (ك) and the letter Alef Maksura (ى) when they appear together in an isolated position. This character is used in specific styles of Arabic calligraphy and typesetting to create a smoother, more connected appearance for the two letters, which in standard text would be written as separate characters. It is part of a set of precomposed ligatures that support complex script rendering, though its use is largely historical or stylistic and not required for modern digital Arabic text, which typically relies on dynamic shaping algorithms. The isolated form indicates the ligature stands alone, not connected to preceding or following letters in a word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC3D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Kaf 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 | "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC3D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc3d |