U+FCE2 "ﳢ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FCE2 "ﳢ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Medial Form is a typographic ligature in the Arabic script, designed to represent a joined combination of a Beh (ب) and Heh (ه) when they appear in the medial position within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which historically was used to enable better rendering in older text systems that lacked advanced shaping capabilities. In modern Unicode usage, such ligatures are generally considered presentation forms and are not recommended for encoding plain text, as their intended visual effect is now typically achieved through font-level glyph substitution during proper Arabic text rendering.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Medial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Medial
Decomposition Mapping	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳢ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳢ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce2

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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "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