U+FC4D "ﱍ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC4D "ﱍ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Khah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that combines the Arabic letters noon (ن) and khah (خ) into a single, connected glyph, intended for use in high-quality text rendering where such a compound form is preferred for visual harmony. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which is specifically designed to represent contextual and ligated shapes of Arabic script that are not part of the standard character set. The isolated form indicates the ligature appears on its own, typically at the beginning of a word or in isolation, and it serves to maintain the cursive flow of Arabic writing while reflecting a specific calligraphic tradition. Although modern Unicode usage often favors standard characters with dynamic shaping, this code point remains available for legacy compatibility and specialized typographic applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC4D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC4D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC4D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc4d |
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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| 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 |