U+FC4C "ﱌ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC4C "ﱌ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah Isolated Form is a typographic glyph used in Arabic script that represents a mandatory ligature combining the Arabic letters noon (ن) and hah (ح) into a single visual form specifically designed for the isolated position in text. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains ligatures intended for compatibility with older standards and display systems. In its isolated form, the ligature appears as a connected shape where the noon leads into the hah, and it is primarily utilized in Quranic or classical calligraphic contexts rather than in modern standard Arabic writing. The ligature facilitates smoother text rendering in environments that do not support automatic ligature formation, ensuring the two characters are consistently presented as a unified glyph in isolated contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC4C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc4c |
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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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 |