U+FD14 "ﴔ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD14 "ﴔ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined sequence of the letter 'Ain' (ع) followed by the letter 'Yeh' (ي) in their final positional form at the end of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to encode precomposed visual variants that facilitate the reproduction of traditional Arabic calligraphy and typesetting. It appears as a single connected glyph rather than as two separate characters, addressing historical rendering needs where such ligatures were common in printed texts, though modern digital fonts typically handle this connection through contextual shaping without requiring a dedicated code point.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD14
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ain with Yeh Final Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Final
Decomposition Mapping	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴔ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴔ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD14
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD14
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd14

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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "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