U+FC8A "ﲊ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Reh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC8A "ﲊ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Reh Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically representing the joined pair of the letters noon (ن) and reh (ر) in their final positional form, meaning it appears at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support legacy text rendering and provides precomposed glyphs for common ligatures. It ensures that the cursive connection between the tail of the final noon and the reh is visually seamless, reflecting traditional calligraphic practice in Arabic writing, particularly in styles like Naskh or Nastaliq. While primarily used for compatibility with older systems and in contexts requiring precise orthographic control, modern Unicode implementations often prefer combining the individual characters with a zero-width joiner for dynamic shaping.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC8A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon with Reh 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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲊ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲊ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC8A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC8A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc8a

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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
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