U+FD17 "ﴗ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﴗ
U+FD17 "ﴗ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing a combined form of the letter "seen" (س) and the letter "alef maksura" (ى) in its final position at the end of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to accommodate traditional calligraphic and historical text rendering where two or more characters are joined into a single glyph for aesthetic or spatial reasons. In modern digital typography, this character is primarily relevant for supporting legacy text or specialized scholarly work, as standard Unicode encoding typically handles such combinations through contextual shaping rather than dedicated code points.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD17 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen 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 | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd17 |