U+FCFD "ﳽ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FCFD "ﳽ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, combining the letter sheen (ش) with alef maksura (ى) into a single glyph for stylistic or calligraphic purposes in certain digital fonts and text rendering contexts. This ligature appears in the isolated form, meaning it stands alone as a distinct shape rather than connecting to adjacent letters, and is primarily employed in classical Arabic texts or specialized typography to preserve historical orthographic conventions or to achieve a more compact or elegant visual presentation. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures intended for compatibility with legacy systems and display applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCFD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen 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 | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCFD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCFD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcfd |