U+FCEF "ﳯ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Heh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCEF "ﳯ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Heh Medial Form is a presentation form character in the Arabic script block, specifically designed to represent the combined glyph of the Arabic letters Noon (ن) and Heh (ه) in their medial positional form within a word. This ligature is part of a set of contextual glyph variants intended for legacy or typographic rendering systems that require precomposed shapes, rather than for modern Unicode-compliant text processing, where standard combining characters are preferred. Its primary use is in historical documents, specialized fonts, or environments where precise calligraphic or typeface control is needed, linking the two consonants smoothly in the middle of a word, such as in certain Persian or Arabic words.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCEF
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon 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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCEF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCEF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcef

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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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