U+FC8B "ﲋ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Zain Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC8B "ﲋ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Zain Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined letters noon (ن) and zain (ز) when they appear in the final position of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, which was designed to support complex text rendering and calligraphic styles found in traditional Arabic manuscripts. The ligature visually merges the two letters into a single glyph, streamlining handwriting or print for aesthetic or practical reasons, though it is not typically used in modern digital text input and may be replaced by a sequence of separate noon and zain characters in standard Arabic encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC8B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon with Zain 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 "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲋ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲋ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC8B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC8B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc8b

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 "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ز" U+0632 Arabic Letter Zain
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