U+FCBF "ﲿ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCBF "ﲿ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Hah Initial Form is a calligraphic representation within the Arabic script, specifically designed for use in advanced text rendering systems that require contextual letter shaping. This character combines the letters Feh (ف) and Hah (ح) into a single ligature that appears in the initial position of a word, where the Feh is written with its distinctive loop and the Hah follows with its characteristic shape to form a compact and visually cohesive unit. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains a collection of ligatures and positional forms that support the aesthetic and typographic demands of traditional Arabic writing, though modern Unicode usage often relies on automatic shaping engines rather than these precomposed forms. The ligature facilitates smoother and more elegant typography in specialized contexts, such as classical texts or decorative calligraphy, but its direct encoding is considered obsolete for simplest algorit
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCBF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Feh 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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCBF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcbf |
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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "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 |