U+FCDC "ﳜ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCDC "ﳜ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Khah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing the joined combination of the letters Yeh (ي) and Khah (خ) in their initial positional form, where the Yeh appears without its final tail and the Khah retains its distinctive dot above. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures designed for compatibility with legacy text rendering systems and for precise calligraphic representation, though in modern Unicode processing it is generally considered a presentation form rather than a semantic character. Its primary use is in historical, pedagogical, or specific typographic contexts where the visual connection between these two letters is required to be preserved as a single glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCDC
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Yeh 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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳜ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳜ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCDC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCDC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcdc

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "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