U+FC74 "ﱴ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FC74 "ﱴ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature that combines the Arabic letters Teh (ت) and Alef Maksura (ى) in their final positional form, meaning it represents the joined appearance of these two characters when they occur at the end of a word in Arabic script. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support legacy font rendering and complex calligraphic styles, where such character combinations are visually joined into a single glyph for aesthetic consistency. In modern digital text, this character is not typically used for general writing, as modern Unicode encoding prefers the use of separate characters with shaping engines, but it remains important for preserving the appearance of traditional Arabic calligraphy and for compatibility with older text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC74 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh 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 | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc74 |