U+FCB5 "ﲵ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCB5 "ﲵ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah Initial Form is a typographic presentation form used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the two-letter combination of the letters ṣād (ض) and ḥāʾ (ح) joined together in their initial form. This ligature appears in certain Arabic calligraphic styles and older typesetting systems where such combined shapes were employed to enhance visual consistency or save space, particularly in Quranic texts or formally printed works. It belongs to the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" block, which codifies these specialized ligatures for compatibility with legacy fonts, though modern Arabic typography typically uses separate character sequences instead. While rarely necessary in contemporary Unicode implementations, U+FCB5 remains available for representing historical or stylistic renditions of the digraph, especially when reproducing digital facsimiles of classical manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCB5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Dad 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 | "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcb5 |
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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "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 |