U+FC5E "ﱞ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Dammatan Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC5E "ﱞ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Dammatan Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combination of the shadda diacritic, which indicates consonant gemination or doubling, and the dammatan, which is the tanwin marker for the nominative case, represented by two damma signs. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and is specifically designed for isolated or standalone rendering in contexts where the separate diacritics might be visually or typographically inconvenient, such as in certain calligraphic or display applications. Its use helps maintain proper spacing and alignment in written Arabic text, ensuring that the combined diacritical marks appear seamlessly together without overlapping with adjacent characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC5E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Shadda with Dammatan 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	"SP" U+0020 Space "ٌ" U+064C Arabic Dammatan "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC5E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC5E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc5e

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	"SP" U+0020 Space "ٌ" U+064C Arabic Dammatan "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "ٌ" U+064C Arabic Dammatan "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter