U+FCAF "ﲯ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCAF "ﲯ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah Initial Form is a typographic presentation form found in the Arabic script block, specifically representing the initial positional variant of a ligature that combines the letters seen (س) and khah (خ) into a single connected glyph. This character is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and text rendering to maintain visual coherence when the two consonants appear together at the beginning of a word, with the ligature serving as an optional display form rather than a fundamental part of standard Unicode textual encoding. Its inclusion in Unicode supports legacy document preservation and aesthetic typesetting for scripts that demand precise letter shaping.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCAF
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCAF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCAF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcaf

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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