U+FCD2 "ﳒ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCD2 "ﳒ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic representation used in Arabic script, where it combines the letters noon (ن) and jeem (ج) into a single connected glyph at the beginning of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed for compatibility with older text processing systems that required precomposed forms for proper cursive rendering. While modern Unicode usage typically encourages the use of individual characters with shaping engines to handle ligatures automatically, U+FCD2 remains available for legacy documents or specific contexts where a fixed initial form of this consonant pairing is needed. Its appearance reflects the calligraphic tradition of Arabic writing, where certain letter combinations are aesthetically merged for fluidity and readability.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCD2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon 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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳒ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳒ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCD2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCD2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcd2

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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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