U+FCB2 "ﲲ" Arabic Ligature Sad with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCB2 "ﲲ" Arabic Ligature Sad with Khah Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, specifically designed to represent the initial (beginning of a word) combination of the letters Sad (ص) and Khah (خ) as a single joined glyph. This ligature was included in Unicode for compatibility with legacy Arabic text standards and digital fonts, allowing for precise rendering of traditional calligraphic forms where the two consonants merge into a distinctive shape. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A range, which encodes many such positional variants and ligatures that are not strictly required for modern text processing but preserve historical or stylistic representations of Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCB2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Sad 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	"ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCB2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCB2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcb2

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	"ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ص" U+0635 Arabic Letter Sad "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