U+FC68 "ﱨ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FC68 "ﱨ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined sequence of the letter Yeh with a Hamza diacritic above it, followed by the letter Alef Maksura, written in its final form as it would appear at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes encoded ligatures designed to support complex calligraphic styles and historical or specialized text rendering, where two or more characters are fused into a single glyph for aesthetic or conventional reasons. Its presence enables precise representation of certain words or names in Arabic where this specific vocalization and letter combination occurs, maintaining the script's visual harmony and readability.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC68 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Alef Maksura Final Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Final |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc68 |