U+FCAB "ﲫ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCAB "ﲫ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic representation used in Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting, specifically combining the letters khah (خ) and jeem (ج) into a single glyph. This ligature appears in the initial position of a word, where the khah takes its initial form and connects directly to the following jeem, which is also shaped to join seamlessly. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range of encoded characters designed to support specialized, aesthetically ornate rendering of text for historical or stylistic purposes, though it is not a standard component of modern digital Arabic text, which typically uses dynamic shaping algorithms rather than precomposed ligatures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCAB
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Khah 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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲫ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCAB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcab

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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "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