U+FC71 "ﱱ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Zain Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC71 "ﱱ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Zain Final Form is a typographic presentation form used in Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting to represent the specific ligature of the letters "teh" (ﺕ) and "zain" (ﺯ) when they appear together at the end of a word. This character is part of the Unicode standard’s "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" block, which was primarily designed to support legacy text and high-quality rendering of Arabic script, where such ligatures avoid the typical spacing and joining issues that arise in standard encoded text. It is not intended for general modern typing but rather for specialized contexts such as religious texts, historical documents, or customized visual layouts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC71
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱱ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱱ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC71
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC71
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc71

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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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