U+FC9C "ﲜ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FC9C "ﲜ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic composite used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the initial form of the letter Beh (ب) combined with Jeem (ج) as a single connected glyph. This ligature belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized character shapes for calligraphic and typesetting contexts, particularly in languages like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It is typically employed in traditional or formal text layouts where smooth, cursive joining of letters is visually prioritized, and it appears only in the initial position of a word, as indicated by its "initial form" designation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC9C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem 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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC9C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc9c

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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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