U+FC99 "ﲙ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FC99 "ﲙ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Khah Initial Form is a presentation form character found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, specifically designed for the initial position of a word or syllable in Arabic calligraphy and typography. It represents a ligature combining the Arabic letter Yeh (ي) with a Hamza diacritic placed above it, followed by the letter Khah (خ), all fused into a single glyph to facilitate continuous cursive script. This character is primarily used in older or stylized text rendering systems for accurate visual representation, though it is not typically employed in modern Unicode text processing due to reliance on more dynamic shaping engines.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC99 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Khah Initial Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Initial |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc99 |