U+FCFA "ﳺ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FCFA "ﳺ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters ghain (غ) and yeh (ي) as a single glyph in their isolated form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support traditional and calligraphic text rendering where such ligatures are common. It appears primarily in historical or stylized digital texts, where it facilitates a smoother visual connection between the two letters that would otherwise be written separately. Its use enhances readability and maintains the aesthetic flow of Arabic calligraphy in specific contexts, though it is not employed in standard modern Arabic orthography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCFA
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ghain 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	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳺ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCFA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCFA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcfa

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	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "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