U+FCE6 "ﳦ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Heh Medial Form Unicode Character

U+FCE6 "ﳦ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Heh Medial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script to represent the combination of the letters theh (ت) and heh (ه) joined together in their medial forms within a word. This specific ligature is encoded in the Unicode standard within the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" block, which was designed to support legacy text rendering and specific calligraphic styles, though it is generally not used in modern, plain Arabic text as it is a presentation form that depends on font and contextual shaping. Its purpose is to facilitate the accurate display of historical or stylized Arabic documents where the two letters appear as a single cursive unit in the middle of a word.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCE6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Theh 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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCE6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCE6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufce6

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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "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