U+FCB4 "ﲴ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCB4 "ﲴ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combined initial form of the letters "Dad" (ض) and "Jeem" (ج) as they appear when connected at the beginning of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to provide precomposed ligature forms for compatibility with older text rendering systems. The ligature incorporates the distinct shapes of the two letters, with the curved body of the initial Dad transitioning smoothly into the initial Jeem form, which features a characteristic notch and loop. While modern Unicode rendering typically uses dynamic shaping to combine individual letters, U+FCB4 remains a legacy representation that preserves the traditional calligraphic style of connected Arabic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCB4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Dad 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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCB4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCB4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcb4

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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "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