U+FCD3 "ﳓ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCD3 "ﳓ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah Initial Form is a specialized typographic character used in the Arabic script to represent a connected ligature of the letters noon (ن) and hah (ح) in their initial positional forms, meaning it appears at the beginning of a word or syllable where these two consonants are joined together. This codepoint belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed for compatibility with older text systems and legacy fonts, allowing precise layout control in situations where a single glyph is needed for the combined stroke of noon followed by hah. While the standard Arabic encoding typically handles such ligatures through shaping algorithms and font logic, U+FCD3 provides a precomposed form that ensures consistent visual representation in environments that do not support dynamic cursive joining.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCD3
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon 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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳓ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳓ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCD3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCD3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcd3

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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