U+FCE8 "ﳨ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Heh Medial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﳨ
U+FCE8 "ﳨ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Heh Medial Form is a typographic representation used in certain Arabic script fonts to combine the letters seen (س) and heh (ه) into a single connected glyph in the medial position of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support legacy text rendering and specific calligraphic styles, and it appears when the seen is followed by a heh in the middle of a word, such as in certain Quranic or traditional texts. Modern text systems typically handle this combination through dynamic shaping rather than relying on this precomposed character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCE8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen 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 | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufce8 |
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 | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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 |