U+FCFB "ﳻ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FCFB "ﳻ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, combining the letter seen (س) with alef maksura (ى) into a single connected glyph, specifically designed for the isolated position where the ligature stands alone without connecting to preceding or following characters. This ligature belongs to the Unicode block known as Arabic Presentation Forms-A, which encodes various contextual forms and stylistic variants of Arabic letters that are primarily intended for compatibility with legacy text and for rendering in certain calligraphic or typographic systems. Its purpose is to represent the sequence of seen followed by alef maksura as a single visual unit, often found in classical manuscripts or specific digital fonts, helping to preserve the traditional appearance of Arabic writing where such combinations are joined without breaking the flow of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCFB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen 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 | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCFB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCFB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcfb |