U+FC77 "ﱷ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Zain Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﱷ
U+FC77 "ﱷ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Zain Final Form is a specific typographic representation used in Arabic script, combining the letters Theh (ث) and Zain (ز) into a single connected glyph that appears only at the end of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support complex calligraphic styles and legacy text rendering, rather than for modern standard encoding. It represents a historical or stylistic variant where the two characters merge graphically, ensuring proper cursive alignment and visual harmony in traditional Arabic typesetting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC77 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Theh 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 | "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc77 |
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 | "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "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 |