U+FC90 "ﲐ" Arabic Ligature Alef Maksura with Superscript Alef Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC90 "ﲐ" Arabic Ligature Alef Maksura with Superscript Alef Final Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, specifically representing the final form of an alef maksura (a short, seatless alif) combined with a superscript alef above it, which visually marks a grammatical distinction or a specific phonetic reading in certain contexts, such as in the Quranic text or classical Arabic calligraphy. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes simplified ligatures for compatibility with older fonts, and it is not typically used in modern standard digital text due to its specialized nature.

General Properties

Code Point U+FC90
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Alef Maksura with Superscript Alef 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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
"ٰ" U+0670 Arabic Letter Superscript Alef

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﲐ
HTML Hex Encoding ﲐ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB2 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC90
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC90
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc90

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 "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
"ٰ" U+0670 Arabic Letter Superscript Alef
NFKC Simple Casefold "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
"ٰ" U+0670 Arabic Letter Superscript Alef
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