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