U+FCDA "ﳚ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCDA "ﳚ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script to represent the initial form of a ligature combining the letters Yeh (ي) and Jeem (ج). This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range designed to encode precomposed ligatures that historically appeared in calligraphic and printed Arabic texts to preserve shaping and spacing. As an initial form, it appears at the beginning of a word or syllable, where the Yeh connects to the following Jeem in a smooth, joined stroke, and its inclusion in Unicode aids in rendering legacy documents and specific fonts accurately, though modern text processing often uses separate characters with dynamic shaping instead.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCDA
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Yeh 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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳚ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳚ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCDA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCDA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcda

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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "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