U+FCF5 "ﳵ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCF5 "ﳵ" Arabic Ligature Tah with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, specifically designed to represent the combination of the letter Tah (ط) and the letter Alef Maksura (ى) as a single, joined character in its isolated form. This ligature is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and typesetting to improve visual harmony and readability, particularly in languages that employ the Arabic script, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It appears as a unified glyph where the Tah’s distinctive shape merges with the Alef Maksura’s tail, and its inclusion in Unicode supports precise digital rendering of traditional manuscript conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCF5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Tah with Alef Maksura Isolated Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ط" U+0637 Arabic Letter Tah "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcf5 |