U+FC5D "ﱝ" Arabic Ligature Alef Maksura with Superscript Alef Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC5D "ﱝ" Arabic Ligature Alef Maksura with Superscript Alef Isolated Form is a specialized typographic glyph within the Arabic script block, designed to represent a single, isolated unit where the letter alef maksura, which typically indicates a long vowel sound, is combined with a superscript alef above it. This ligature is part of a set of presentation forms used in complex text layout, particularly for aesthetic or calligraphic purposes in certain Arabic script styles, where it helps maintain visual harmony by avoiding the separate placement of diacritical marks. The character is not typically used in modern standard Arabic but may appear in historical texts, Quranic notations, or decorative contexts where precise orthographic representation is valued.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC5D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Alef Maksura 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 | "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura "ٰ" U+0670 Arabic Letter Superscript Alef |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC5D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc5d |