U+FCF1 "ﳱ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Heh Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCF1 "ﳱ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Heh Medial Form is a presentation form character used in Arabic script, specifically designed for the medial position of a word where the letters Yeh (ي) and Heh (ه) are combined as a typographic ligature. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures intended for compatibility with older text processing systems that lack dynamic ligature shaping. In modern Unicode text, this ligature is typically handled automatically by fonts and rendering engines when Yeh and Heh appear consecutively in medial form, but U+FCF1 exists as an explicit encoded entity for legacy or specialized contexts. Its use is discouraged in plain text in favor of the standard two-character sequence, as it may cause interoperability issues with contemporary Arabic text rendering.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCF1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Yeh 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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳱ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳱ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCF1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCF1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcf1

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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "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