U+FC9E "ﲞ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FC9E "ﲞ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Khah Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script presentation forms block, specifically representing the combination of the Arabic letters Beh (ب) and Khah (خ) in their initial positional form for use at the beginning of a word. This ligature is primarily utilized in historical or ornate calligraphic contexts where the two characters are conjoined into a single glyph to achieve a more compact or aesthetically flowing appearance, though it is not typically required for modern standard digital text. It is encoded for compatibility with older character sets and text rendering systems, allowing the preservation of traditional calligraphic styles in plain text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC9E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh 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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC9E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc9e

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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