U+FC7F "ﱿ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC7F "ﱿ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letter Qaf (ق) and Yeh (ي) in their final forms, which occurs when these letters appear together at the end of a word. This ligature belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains special shaped characters designed to support complex text rendering and calligraphic traditions in digital typography. It ensures that the combined visual appearance of Qaf and Yeh is displayed as a single, smoothly connected glyph, preserving the cursive flow characteristic of Arabic writing, particularly in formal or traditional contexts. This character is rarely used in modern digital text but remains important for historical document preservation and precise typesetting of classical Arabic manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC7F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Qaf with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱿ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱿ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC7F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC7F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc7f

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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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