U+FC73 "ﱳ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Noon Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC73 "ﱳ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Noon Final Form is a typographic ligature representing the combination of the Arabic letters "teh" and "noon" in their final form, created to simplify and visually streamline the appearance of written Arabic in certain contexts. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, which encodes specific ligatures and variant shapes used primarily for compatibility with legacy text processing systems rather than for modern standard text encoding. It appears as a single glyph when the letters occur together at the end of a word, often derived from calligraphic traditions to enhance readability or aesthetic uniformity in fonts designed for the Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC73
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh with Noon 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 "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱳ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱳ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC73
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC73
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc73

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 "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
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