U+FCA2 "ﲢ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCA2 "ﲢ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the joined initial form of the letters "teh" (ت) and "hah" (ح) when they appear together at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms block and is primarily intended for compatibility with older text rendering systems, as modern Unicode-aware fonts typically form such ligatures automatically through cursive shaping algorithms. Its use helps preserve the visual appearance of historical or specialized Arabic texts where these two letters are combined into a single glyph for stylistic or calligraphic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCA2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh with Hah 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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲢ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲢ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCA2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufca2

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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