U+FCC5 "ﳅ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCC5 "ﳅ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in certain styles of Arabic script, specifically representing the initial form of the letters Kaf (ك) and Hah (ح) combined into a single glyph. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains precomposed ligatures designed to support text rendering in complex calligraphic or traditional contexts, such as when two adjacent consonants are fused for aesthetic or orthographic reasons. As an initial form, this ligature appears at the beginning of a word, where the Kaf takes its initial shape and merges smoothly with the following Hah, a practice common in older or highly stylized Arabic typography to improve visual flow or preserve historical character usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCC5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf 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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳅ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳅ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCC5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCC5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcc5

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "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