U+FCAD "ﲭ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCAD "ﲭ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the letters Seen (س) and Jeem (ج) in their initial forms to create a single, compact glyph for more efficient and aesthetically pleasing calligraphic writing. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed positional ligatures that simplify text rendering in complex scripts, particularly for historical or decorative contexts. It appears at the beginning of a word, where the initial form of Seen is joined with Jeem, and its use reflects traditional manuscript styles where such ligatures enhance readability and visual harmony in connected Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCAD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen 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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCAD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCAD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcad

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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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