U+FCC2 "ﳂ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCC2 "ﳂ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing the conjoined form of the letters Qaf (ق) and Hah (ح) as they appear at the beginning of a word when rendered in connected cursive text. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures primarily intended for backward compatibility with older text encoding systems, though modern Arabic rendering typically uses dynamic shaping algorithms to display such connections without relying on discrete ligature codepoints. In its initial form, the ligature showcases the distinct joining strokes required for proper calligraphic flow, with Qaf maintaining its characteristic tail and Hah adopting its initial shape, both integrated seamlessly into a single glyph for aesthetic or legacy support purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCC2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Qaf 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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳂ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳂ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCC2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCC2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcc2

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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "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