U+FCB8 "ﲸ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCB8 "ﲸ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Hah Initial Form is a typographic presentation form used in Arabic script to represent a specific ligature, which is a combined glyph of the letters Tah (ط) and Hah (ح) in their initial forms, occurring at the beginning of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed for interoperability with legacy text and advanced typesetting systems, ensuring that the sequence of these two letters appears as a single, cohesive visual unit rather than separate characters. The ligature is commonly employed in contexts like Quranic text, calligraphy, or traditional publications where such connected forms enhance readability and aesthetic consistency.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCB8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Tah 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	"ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCB8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCB8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcb8

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	"ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "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