U+FC8F "ﲏ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC8F "ﲏ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Yeh Final Form is a typographic presentation form found in the Arabic script, specifically representing the ligature of the letters noon (ن) and yeh (ي) combined into a single glyph for use in a word’s final position. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was primarily designed to support legacy fonts and compatibility with older text processing systems, rather than for general modern encoding. While not used in standard, phonetically accurate Arabic text, it serves to preserve the visual appearance of handwritten or calligraphic styles where the two letters join seamlessly at the end of a word, such as in certain traditional manuscripts or specialized typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC8F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲏ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC8F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC8F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc8f

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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