U+FC83 "ﲃ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FC83 "ﲃ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letter Kaf (ك) followed by Alef Maksura (ى) in their final connective form, which occurs when the two letters appear at the end of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed for compatibility with older font encoding standards and text rendering systems that required precomposed ligatures. Its inclusion allows for precise representation of traditional calligraphic or typographic styles where the two letters merge into a single glyph, particularly in certain contexts such as Quranic texts or classical manuscripts. The ligature demonstrates how Unicode accommodates complex writing systems by providing precomposed forms that preserve the visual unity of cursive scripts without relying on dynamic shaping engines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC83 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Kaf 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 | "ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC83 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc83 |