U+FC6E "ﱮ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﱮ
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 |