U+FCF8 "ﳸ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCF8 "ﳸ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh Isolated Form is a special typographic unit in the Arabic script that combines the letters Ain (ع) and Yeh (ي) into a single glyph, used primarily in certain calligraphic styles and historical texts where ligatures are employed for aesthetic or space-saving purposes. This isolated form stands alone without connecting to adjacent characters, and it falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range dedicated to contextual and ligature variants that are not typically used in modern digital typing but are preserved for compatibility with older document encoding or traditional writing systems. As such, U+FCF8 represents a specific visual rendering of the character sequence, distinct from the standard, separate rendering of the two letters in Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCF8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳸ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳸ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCF8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCF8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcf8

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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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