U+FC95 "ﲕ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FC95 "ﲕ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of a Yeh (ي) and an Alef Maksura (ى) in their final positional form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual glyph variants designed for compatibility with older text processing systems. It appears at the end of a word to condense the sequence of Yeh and Alef Maksura into a single visual unit, aiding in precise rendering for languages like Arabic and Persian. The ligature helps maintain the proper cursive connection and aesthetic flow of the script in traditional typography, though its use is largely historical or specialized in modern digital fonts that handle such combinations automatically.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC95 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Alef Maksura 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 | "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC95 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC95 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc95 |