U+FC8D "ﲍ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Noon Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC8D "ﲍ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Noon Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, specifically representing the combination of two noon letters in their final form as a single connected glyph. This character was encoded to support the aesthetic and traditional calligraphic practice of merging adjacent letters in certain Arabic writing styles, where the double noon appears at the end of a word. It is part of a larger set of Arabic presentation forms designed to preserve the visual integrity of historical and religious texts, though its use is largely confined to specialized rendering systems rather than modern standard typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC8D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon with Noon 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 "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲍ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲍ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC8D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC8D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc8d

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 "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
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