U+FCA7 "ﲧ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCA7 "ﲧ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combined initial forms of the letters Jeem (ج) and Hah (ح) when they appear together at the beginning of a word or syllable. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed characters designed to support complex text rendering in older or specialized systems. Its inclusion facilitates accurate visual representation of certain calligraphic or printed styles, especially in contexts where separate characters might not join smoothly, and it is not typically used in modern plain text due to the availability of dynamic shaping algorithms in Unicode-aware fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCA7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Jeem 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	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲧ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCA7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCA7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufca7

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	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "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