U+FC6F "ﱯ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC6F "ﱯ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the Arabic letters Beh (ب) and Yeh (ي) in their final form, which occurs when these letters appear at the end of a word. This character belongs to the Unicode block "Arabic Presentation Forms-A," a range designed to support complex calligraphic and typographic variations that are not typically encoded in the standard Arabic block. The ligature is primarily utilized in advanced text rendering and typesetting for classic or ornamental Arabic writing, ensuring that the connected Beh and Yeh appear as a single, visually unified glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC6F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC6F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC6F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc6f

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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