U+FC50 "ﱐ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC50 "ﱐ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature representing the combined visual form of the Arabic letter noon (ن) and the letter yeh (ي) when they appear together in their isolated shapes. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which is primarily designed for compatibility with legacy text and specific calligraphic or typesetting systems, rather than for modern standard text encoding. In written Arabic, such ligatures are not typically used for general digital text; instead, they preserve the stylistic appearance of historical manuscripts or print conventions where two letters are joined for aesthetic or space-saving reasons. The isolated form means this ligature stands alone without connecting to preceding or following letters, which is unusual in Arabic and may denote a specialized or decorative usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC50
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱐ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱐ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC50
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC50
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc50

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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