U+FC7A "ﱺ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC7A "ﱺ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically part of the Presentation Forms-A block designed to represent a ligature where the letter "theh" (ت) appears in its final form, connected to the letter "alef maksura" (ى). This character is not a standard alphabetical letter but a stylistic rendering that facilitates cursive text display in certain digital fonts, often appearing at the end of a word to denote a specific phonetic or orthographic combination. Its encoding supports legacy text processing and typographic precision in contexts like Quranic or formal Arabic typesetting.

General Properties

Code Point U+FC7A
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Theh 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 "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﱺ
HTML Hex Encoding ﱺ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB1 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC7A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC7A
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc7a

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
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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