U+FD01 "ﴁ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FD01 "ﴁ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which is specifically designed for complex text rendering and historical or traditional calligraphy rather than modern plain text. It represents the combination of the Arabic letter Jeem (ج) and the letter Alef Maksura (ى) in their isolated forms, fused into a single glyph to achieve a more elegant or compact visual appearance in written Arabic. This character is primarily utilized in digital fonts and rendering systems to replicate the aesthetic of classical Arabic manuscript styles, where such ligatures are common for improving legibility and decorative flow. As a presentation form, it is not typically used for standard modern communication but remains important for preserving the visual heritage of Arabic script in specialized software and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD01 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Jeem 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 | "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD01 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD01 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd01 |