U+FCF7 "ﳷ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FCF7 "ﳷ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, representing the combination of the Arabic letter Ain (ع) and Alef Maksura (ى) in their isolated form. This ligature is used in certain calligraphic and historical contexts to visually merge two characters into a single glyph for aesthetic or space-saving reasons, specifically within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A range, which encodes such ligatures for compatibility with older text rendering systems. It belongs to a set of Arabic ligatures that are rarely needed in modern digital text but remain important for accurately displaying Quranic manuscripts, classical literature, or stylized typography where traditional ligature rules apply.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCF7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Ain 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 | "ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCF7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCF7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcf7 |