U+FC4B "ﱋ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC4B "ﱋ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic composite of the Arabic letters noon and jeem combined into a single glyph, used in Arabic script calligraphy and typography to create a more harmonious visual appearance when the two letters occur consecutively in an isolated position. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains ligatures designed for specific writing contexts, primarily to support complex shaping requirements of the Arabic script. Its primary function is aesthetic, allowing digital fonts to render the joined letters seamlessly, as opposed to requiring separate individual characters that would not naturally connect in this form. While not essential for basic text encoding, it aids in preserving traditional calligraphic styles and is sometimes used in specialized publishing or religious texts like the Quran, where precise orthographic rendering is valued.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC4B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc4b |
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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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 |