U+FCC4 "ﳄ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCC4 "ﳄ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, used in specific contexts of Arabic script calligraphy and text rendering. It represents the joined combination of the letters Kaf (ك) and Jeem (ج) in their initial form, meaning the ligature appears when these two letters occur at the beginning of a word or syllable and are connected by cursive handwriting conventions. This character is part of a set of precomposed ligatures designed for backward compatibility with older text encoding systems, and it is primarily utilized in scholarly, historical, or specialized Arabic typesetting to preserve traditional orthographic styles, though modern Unicode text often relies on dynamic shaping via fonts rather than these individual encoded forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCC4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf 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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳄ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳄ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCC4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCC4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcc4

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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "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