U+FCCA "ﳊ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCCA "ﳊ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in certain historical or presentation forms of the Arabic script, specifically encoding the combination of the letter Lam (ل) followed by Hah (ح) in their initial positional form. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support compatibility with older text rendering systems and legacy fonts that required precomposed glyphs for cursive joining. While modern Unicode text processing typically handles such combinations dynamically through bidirectional shaping and cursive attachment rules, U+FCCA provides a fixed, standalone code point for the ligature, ensuring correct display in environments that lack sophisticated shaping engines. Its use is largely confined to specialized contexts like digital preservation of historical manuscripts or certain typesetting systems, and it is not recommended for general modern text due to the availability of standard Arabic l
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCCA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Lam 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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcca |
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 | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "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 |