U+FCC0 "ﳀ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCC0 "ﳀ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah Initial Form is a special typographic form found in the Arabic script block, representing a joined ligature of the letters Feh (ف) and Khah (خ) in their initial, or word-starting, position. This character is used in certain historical or calligraphic contexts to visually merge the two adjacent consonants into a single glyph, primarily for aesthetic or space-saving reasons in Arabic text. It is part of a larger set of presentation forms in Unicode that support complex script rendering, though its use is generally discouraged in favor of standard character sequences for modern digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCC0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Feh with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcc0 |
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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| 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 |