U+FC80 "ﲀ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC80 "ﲀ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combined form of the letters "Kaf" (ك) and "Alef" (ا) when they appear at the end of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range of encoded ligatures that reflect historical and calligraphic conventions in Arabic typography, where certain letter combinations are visually joined for aesthetic or readability purposes. In this case, the ligature produces a cursive, connected glyph that simplifies the rendering of the sequence, often used in classical texts or stylized writing, though it is not a standard standalone letter in modern Arabic orthography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC80
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef 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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲀ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲀ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC80
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC80
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc80

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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef
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