U+FCF2 "ﳲ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha Medial Form Unicode Character
U+FCF2 "ﳲ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha Medial Form is a presentation form character in the Arabic script specifically designed for complex text layout systems. It represents a ligature that combines the shadda diacritic, which indicates gemination or doubling of a consonant, with the fatha vowel sign, which marks a short 'a' sound, positioned in the medial form of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and was created to allow more accurate rendering of Arabic text in digital typography, particularly in older or specialized font systems where automatic ligature formation might not be supported. Its primary purpose is to ensure that the combined diacritics appear correctly in the middle of a word, preserving the visual and phonetic integrity of the script for readers and textual databases.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCF2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha 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 | "ـ" U+0640 Arabic Tatweel "َ" U+064E Arabic Fatha "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCF2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCF2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcf2 |