U+FD01 "ﴁ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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