U+FCD9 "ﳙ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Superscript Alef Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCD9 "ﳙ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Superscript Alef Initial Form is a presentation-form glyph used in the Arabic script to represent a specific typographic ligature, combining the character heh (ه) with a superscript alef (ا) in its initial position within a word. This ligature appears in historical or calligraphic texts, particularly in the Ottoman Turkish or Persian traditions, where it denotes a grammatical or stylistic contraction, such as in the word for "this" or "that" written with a diacritical alef above the heh. It is encoded in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block and is intended for compatibility with legacy fonts and systems, not for modern standard use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCD9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Heh with Superscript Alef 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 "ٰ" U+0670 Arabic Letter Superscript Alef |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCD9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcd9 |