U+FCAE "ﲮ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCAE "ﲮ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script presentation forms block, specifically representing the initial form of the letters Seen (ـﺳ) and Hah (ـﺤ) combined into a single glyph. This ligature is part of a set of encoded presentation forms designed for compatibility with older text rendering systems, and it corresponds to the Arabic letter sequence "سح" when those characters appear in their initial joining position within a word. While modern Unicode rendering often handles such ligatures automatically through font shaping, this character remains available for legacy use, preserving the visual appearance of traditional calligraphic styles where the two consonants merge gracefully.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCAE
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen 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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲮ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲮ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCAE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcae

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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