U+FCFE "ﳾ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCFE "ﳾ" Arabic Ligature Sheen with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic presentation form used in the Arabic script to represent a ligature combining the letter "sheen" (ش) and the letter "yeh" (ي) as a single connected glyph. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, specifically designed for legacy and calligraphic text rendering where such ligatures are standard. It is intended for isolated use, meaning it appears on its own without connecting to adjacent letters on either side, typically reflecting historical or stylistic preferences in Quranic or classical Arabic typesetting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCFE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Sheen 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 | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCFE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcfe |
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 | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ش" U+0634 Arabic Letter Sheen "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 |