U+FCC6 "ﳆ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCC6 "ﳆ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Khah Initial Form is a typographic ligature that combines the Arabic letters Kaf (ك) and Khah (خ) into a single visual form, specifically designed for the initial position within a word. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains complex ligatures used for stylistic or calligraphic rendering in certain writing systems. This character is not typically used in standard Arabic text but appears in historical or specialized contexts where connected letter shapes are aesthetically concatenated, often found in Quranic manuscripts or decorative scripts. Its encoding allows for precise representation of such ligatures in digital text, preserving the traditional appearance of joined letters in Arabic calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCC6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf 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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳆ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳆ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCC6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCC6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcc6

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "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