U+FC96 "ﲖ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FC96 "ﲖ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature from the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, used in certain calligraphic or traditional styles of Arabic script. It represents the combination of two Yeh characters (ی or ي) in their final positional form, creating a single connected glyph that is typically employed within the context of careful typesetting or religious texts where aesthetic continuity is desired. This character is not commonly used in modern digital text, which generally opts for separate characters, but it exists to preserve historical and stylistic representations of Arabic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC96 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh 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 | "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc96 |
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 | "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "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 |