U+FC7E "ﱾ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FC7E "ﱾ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, used in specific calligraphic or traditional text contexts to represent the combined rendering of the Arabic letter Qaf (ق) followed by the letter Alef Maksura (ى) when they appear at the end of a word. This character is not typically used in modern standard digital Arabic text, as it serves as a stylistic variant for historical or decorative typesetting, where the two characters are joined into a single glyph for aesthetic or space-saving purposes. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that legacy documents and specialized fonts can correctly display this ligature without losing the intended visual and semantic representation of the word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC7E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Qaf 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 | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc7e |