U+FC7C "ﱼ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FC7C "ﱼ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature that represents the combined glyph of the Arabic letter "Feh" ( ف ) and "Alef Maksura" ( ى ) in its final form, meaning it is designed to appear at the end of a word when written in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and digital fonts. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, which was added to support the visual representation of complex script connections that are not covered by standard Arabic encoding. It serves a specialized role in preserving the aesthetic and authentic layout of traditional Arabic text, particularly in older or more ornate typographic systems, though modern Unicode usage often prefers separate character sequences for improved processing and searchability.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC7C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Feh 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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC7C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC7C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc7c |