U+FCBA "ﲺ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCBA "ﲺ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script calligraphy and high-quality typesetting, representing the combination of the letters 'Ain (ع) and Jeem (ج) in their initial forms, which occur at the beginning of a word or syllable. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a set of code points designed to preserve precomposed glyph shapes for compatibility with older text rendering systems that may not automatically form ligatures. Its use is primarily historical or stylistic, as modern Unicode text processing typically relies on dynamic shaping through the Arabic script's cursive joining rules rather than individual encoded ligatures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCBA
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ain 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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲺ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCBA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCBA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcba

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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "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