U+FCD4 "ﳔ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCD4 "ﳔ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Khah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combined initial forms of the letters noon (ن) and khah (خ) as a single glyph. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual variants of Arabic letters designed to facilitate proper rendering in complex text layouts, particularly for historical or calligraphic styles. The ligature is intended for use at the beginning of a word, where the noon takes its initial shape and connects seamlessly to the following khah, thereby reducing visual space and preserving traditional cursive aesthetics. It is encoded primarily to support legacy systems and specialized display needs, though modern Unicode-based Arabic text usually achieves such ligatures through font-level shaping rather than explicit character codes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCD4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCD4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCD4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcd4 |
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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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 |