U+FD04 "ﴄ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FD04 "ﴄ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, representing the combination of the letters khah (خ) and yeh (ي) presented in their isolated form. This character is used in certain calligraphic and orthographic contexts where a single glyph is created for the fused sequence to enhance visual harmony or readability, particularly in older or formal Arabic texts. It is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A range, which contains specialized ligatures and contextual forms that are not typically required for standard digital text but may be needed for precise rendering in historical or complex script environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD04
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Khah 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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴄ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴄ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD04
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD04
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd04

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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "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