U+FCF4 "ﳴ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Kasra Medial Form Unicode Character
U+FCF4 "ﳴ" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Kasra Medial Form is a typographic representation used in Arabic script processing, specifically designed for the medial position of a word where the shadda diacritic (indicating gemination or doubled consonant) combines with the kasra diacritic (indicating an 'i' vowel sound) underneath it. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block in Unicode, which contains precomposed ligatures and positional variants intended for backward compatibility with older text rendering systems. It represents a single code point that encodes the visual shape of these two diacritics merged, facilitating proper display in certain fonts and software environments that may not dynamically compose such forms from separate combining characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCF4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Shadda with Kasra 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+0650 Arabic Kasra "ّ" U+0651 Arabic Shadda |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcf4 |