U+FCD6 "ﳖ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCD6 "ﳖ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Heh Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the connected combination of the letters noon (ن) and heh (ه) at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes contextual glyph variants to enable proper display of cursive Arabic text in older or font-limited systems. It appears only in an initial position, where the noon connects to the following heh in a single glyph, streamlining the visual rendering of words that begin with this consonant sequence. As a presentation form, it is not typically used for modern text input but may be encountered in legacy documents or when specific calligraphic styles are required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCD6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon with Heh 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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳖ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳖ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCD6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCD6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcd6

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 "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
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