U+FCE4 "ﳤ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Heh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCE4 "ﳤ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Heh Medial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script presentation forms block, specifically designed to represent the combination of the Arabic letter Teh (ت) and Heh (ه) as they appear together in the middle of a word. This character is used in contexts where a cursive or calligraphic style requires these two letters to be connected smoothly, forming a single glyph that occupies a single character code for compatibility with older text rendering systems. As a medial form, it occurs only when both letters are flanked by other characters, and its use helps preserve the visual integrity of Arabic script in digital environments, though modern Unicode standards generally recommend using separate, non-ligature characters with proper shaping.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳤ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳤ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce4

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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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