U+FD15 "ﴕ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD15 "ﴕ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the combination of the Arabic letter ghain (غ) and the letter alef maksura (ى) in their final form. This ligature is used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and traditional text rendering to create a visually cohesive and streamlined appearance for the connected characters, primarily appearing at the end of words. It is part of a set of presentation forms designed for compatibility with older text systems and may be replaced by standard Unicode sequences in modern applications, though it remains historically significant for representing classical orthographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD15 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Ghain with Alef Maksura 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 | "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd15 |