U+FC5A "ﱚ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC5A "ﱚ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that represents a specific connected graphical form of two Arabic letter Yeh characters combined into a single glyph, used in the isolated position within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes ligatures designed for compatibility with legacy text rendering and calligraphic styles, rather than for standard modern text encoding. It serves to preserve traditional handwritten or typeset forms where two Yeh letters appear together without a space or other intervening character, such as in certain proper names or religious terms. While not commonly used in everyday digital text, it aids in faithful representation of historical or decorative Arabic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC5A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Yeh 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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱚ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱚ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC5A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC5A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc5a

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