U+FCA1 "ﲡ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCA1 "ﲡ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting, specifically representing the conjoined initial forms of the letters "teh" (ت) and "jeem" (ج) as they appear at the beginning of a word. This character was encoded in the Unicode Standard to support complex text layout and historical or stylistic Arabic fonts, where such ligatures improve visual harmony and readability. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual forms and ligatures that are not typically used in modern digital text but are essential for accurate rendering of certain traditional or decorative Arabic scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCA1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲡ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲡ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCA1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCA1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufca1

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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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