U+FC9B "ﲛ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FC9B "ﲛ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Heh Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script within the context of certain presentation forms, specifically designed to render a combined initial form of the letters Yeh (with a Hamza above) and Heh seamlessly as a single glyph. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes complex positional variants that are not required for standard text encoding but are employed in legacy and high-end typography to mimic the calligraphic joining of letters in a word, such as at the beginning of a written sequence. Its inclusion helps ensure faithful visual representation of Arabic text in systems that rely on these predefined ligatures for proper cursive flow and aesthetic consistency.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC9B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Heh 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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc9b |