U+FC55 "ﱕ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC55 "ﱕ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic presentation form found in the Arabic script, specifically representing the visual combination of the letters Yeh (ي) and Jeem (ج) as a single connected glyph when they appear together in their isolated positioning. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was added to Unicode to support the complex cursive styles required for traditional typesetting and calligraphy, where certain letter pairs merge into distinct ligatures for aesthetic or readability purposes. The isolated form of this ligature means it is designed to stand alone, not joined to any preceding or following letters, and it is used in contexts such as Quranic text or formal Arabic documents to preserve correct shaping and spacing. As a presentation form, it does not represent a separate semantic meaning but rather a stylistic variant of the standard letters, and its implementation is intended for backward compatibility wi

General Properties

Code Point U+FC55
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﱕ
HTML Hex Encoding ﱕ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB1 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC55
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC55
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc55

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
"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