U+FCA5 "ﲥ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCA5 "ﲥ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Heh Initial Form is a typographic variant used in certain styles of Arabic script, representing a connected initial form of the ligature combining the letters "teh" (ت) and "heh" (ه). This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual shapes for cursive handwriting and calligraphy, and it appears at the beginning of a word where the two letters merge into a single glyph. Its purpose is to support precise text rendering in legacy systems or specialized fonts, though it is generally not used in modern standard Arabic text encoding, as the base letters are composable through Unicode's joining mechanism.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCA5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲥ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲥ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCA5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufca5

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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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