U+FD16 "ﴖ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD16 "ﴖ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, representing a combination of the letter ghain (غ) and yeh (ي) in their final forms, which occur when both characters appear at the end of a word. This ligature is used in certain traditional or stylistic Arabic calligraphy and text rendering to merge the two characters into a single connected glyph, enhancing visual harmony in written Arabic. It is not a standard modern character for everyday text but is encoded in Unicode to support historical, religious, or decorative contexts where such ligatures are preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD16 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Ghain 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 | "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd16 |
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 | "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "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 |