U+FCFF "ﳿ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCFF "ﳿ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combination of the Arabic letter Hah (ه) and the letter Alef Maksura (ى) joined together in a single connected glyph when used in isolation. This character is encoded for compatibility with older text rendering systems and serves as a stylistic variant rather than a standard Unicode character for modern Arabic script, which typically requires dynamic shaping through a font’s OpenType features. It preserves historical textual representations and ensures faithful reproduction of certain traditional Arabic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCFF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Hah 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 | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCFF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCFF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcff |