U+FCA3 "ﲣ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCA3 "ﲣ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Initial Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, representing a ligature of the letters Teh and Khah joined together in their initial form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support complex calligraphic and typesetting needs in older systems, allowing for the display of a single connected shape where the two letters appear as a cohesive unit at the beginning of a word. While modern Unicode typically relies on dynamic shaping via the Arabic joining algorithm, this precomposed ligature remains available for legacy text or specialized orthographic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCA3
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲣ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲣ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCA3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufca3

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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