U+FD1E "ﴞ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FD1E "ﴞ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script, representing the combined forms of the letters Jeem (ج) and Yeh (ي) when they appear together at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes historically or calligraphically significant ligatures that are not standard in modern Arabic text but are preserved for compatibility with older or ornate writing systems. Its appearance is context specific, as it joins with the preceding letter in a cursive style, and it is typically encountered in religious, classical, or decorative texts where such traditional ligatures are applied.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD1E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Jeem 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	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴞ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴞ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD1E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD1E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd1e

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	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "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