U+FC6B "ﱫ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Zain Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC6B "ﱫ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Zain Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combined characters Beh (ب) and Zain (ز) joined together in their final form, meaning it is used when these two letters appear at the end of a word. This glyph simplifies the writing of the sequence بز into a single connected shape, as required by Arabic calligraphy standards for a more seamless and aesthetically pleasing script. Its inclusion in Unicode supports legacy encoding systems and ensures that digital text rendering can correctly display such traditional ligatures, which are often used in religious or classical texts but are less common in modern digital typography due to automatic shaping by modern fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC6B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Zain 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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱫ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC6B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC6B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc6b

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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain
Script	Arabic
Script Extensions	Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter