U+FC6E "ﱮ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC6E "ﱮ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic presentation form found in the Arabic script, specifically representing the visual combination of the letter Beh (ب) and Alef Maksura (ى) as they appear in their final, or end-of-word, position. This ligature is part of the Unicode block dedicated to Arabic presentation forms, which were encoded to support the precise shaping of characters in older or more complex typesetting systems. The character is used primarily for textual rendering where the joined forms of these two letters create a distinct graphical mark, helping to maintain correct script flow and readability in languages that utilize the Arabic alphabet, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.

General Properties

Code Point U+FC6E
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Beh 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 "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﱮ
HTML Hex Encoding ﱮ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB1 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC6E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC6E
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc6e

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
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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