U+FC4F "ﱏ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC4F "ﱏ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the joined form of the letter noon (ن) followed by alef maksura (ى) as a single, isolated glyph. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support complex text layout and calligraphic styles where certain letter combinations are visually merged for aesthetic or traditional reasons. In the context of modern digital text, this ligature is primarily employed in specialized rendering systems or legacy fonts, and it stands distinct from standard Unicode encoding that typically represents the same sequence as two separate characters. Its usage enhances readability and maintains continuity in Arabic cursive writing, though it is rarely necessary for plain text communication due to automatic shaping in modern text engines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC4F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC4F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC4F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc4f |