U+FC60 "ﱠ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC60 "ﱠ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha Isolated Form is a typographic presentation form used in the Arabic script to represent the combination of the shadda diacritic, which indicates gemination or doubling of a consonant, and the fatha diacritic, which marks a short vowel sound like the English "a". This ligature is encoded as a single visual unit for compatibility with legacy text rendering systems and historical orthographic practices, where such combinations were stored as precomposed glyphs rather than as separate characters with combining marks. It appears in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is intended primarily for roundtrip conversion with older standards, not for modern Arabic text, which typically encodes the shadda and fatha as separate combining characters U+0651 and U+064E respectively.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC60
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha 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+064E Arabic Fatha "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱠ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱠ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC60
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC60
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc60

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+064E Arabic Fatha "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda
NFKC Simple Casefold	"SP" U+0020 Space "َ" U+064E Arabic Fatha "ّ" 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