U+FC5C "ﱜ" Arabic Ligature Reh with Superscript Alef Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC5C "ﱜ" Arabic Ligature Reh with Superscript Alef Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letter "reh" (ر) with a superscript form of the letter "alef" (ا) written above it, presented in its isolated form as a single glyph. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual forms and ligatures designed for specialized or historical typesetting, often to support specific Qur'anic recitation or calligraphic traditions. It should be noted that this ligature is primarily intended for backward compatibility with older text encoding systems and is not considered a standard character for modern Arabic text, as the superscript alef is typically expressed through combining diacritical marks or separate characters in contemporary Unicode usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC5C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Reh with Superscript Alef 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 | "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh "ٰ" U+0670 Arabic Letter Superscript Alef |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc5c |