U+FCBE "ﲾ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCBE "ﲾ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Jeem Initial Form is a specialized typographic glyph that represents the initial form of the Arabic ligature combining the letters Feh (ف) and Jeem (ج). This character is part of the Unicode Standard's Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support complex text layout in Arabic script, particularly for calligraphic and historical orthographic styles where two adjacent letters are joined into a single visual unit at the beginning of a word. The ligature encodes the initial position variant, meaning it appears specifically when the sequence ف+ج occurs at the start of a word, with the Feh taking its initial shaped form and the Jeem connecting to it without a separate initial form of its own, thereby streamlining handwriting and traditional typesetting. While modern digital Arabic text often uses dynamic shaping algorithms to create such ligatures from regular characters, U+FCBE serves as a precomposed form for legacy systems and specia
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCBE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Feh 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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCBE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcbe |
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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "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 |