U+FCD7 "ﳗ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCD7 "ﳗ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Jeem Initial Form is a presentation form glyph found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to represent a ligature of the Arabic letters Heh (ه) and Jeem (ج) in their initial positional form. This character is used primarily in complex text rendering systems, such as those for traditional or calligraphic Arabic scripts, where it appears as a single connected shape at the beginning of a word, rather than as two separate characters. It belongs to a set of encoded ligatures that facilitate proper visual display in older or specialized fonts, though modern Unicode processes typically prefer dynamic shaping through standard Arabic character combinations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCD7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Heh 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	"ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳗ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳗ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCD7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCD7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcd7

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	"ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "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