U+FCA9 "ﲩ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCA9 "ﲩ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined initial form of the letters "Hah" (ه) and "Jeem" (ج). This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is employed in calligraphic and typesetting contexts to create a visually cohesive and flowing representation of the two consonants when they appear together at the beginning of a word. As a ligature, it replaces the separate initial shapes of Hah and Jeem, streamlining the script for aesthetic or practical reasons in traditional and modern Arabic typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCA9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Hah 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 | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufca9 |
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 | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "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 |