U+FCA0 "ﲠ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCA0 "ﲠ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Initial Form is a typographic ligature encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which represents a connected combination of the Arabic letters Beh (ب) and Heh (ه) in their initial forms. It is used in certain Arabic script contexts, particularly in decorative or traditional calligraphy and some historical texts, to create a single glyph where the two characters appear joined at the beginning of a word. This character is not typically employed in modern standard Arabic writing, as it falls outside the usual Unicode Arabic range and is instead provided for compatibility with older font encodings and specialized text rendering systems. Its inclusion facilitates accurate display and digital representation of legacy documents that use such ligatures, though modern fonts generally rely on OpenType shaping rules to produce similar connections automatically without needing a dedicated code point.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCA0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Beh 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 | "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufca0 |
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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh |
| 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 |