U+FD1F "ﴟ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FD1F "ﴟ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form is a presentation form glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to represent the combined shapes of the letters khah (خ) and alef maksura (ى) when they appear together as a ligature in the final position of a word. This character falls within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual forms and ligatures that were encoded to support typographic layout in legacy systems and modern text rendering. It is primarily utilized in certain styles of calligraphy or typesetting where such ligatures maintain visual consistency, and its Unicode encoding allows for correct display and text processing in digital environments that handle complex Arabic script rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD1F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Khah 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 | "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﴟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﴟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB4 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD1F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD1F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd1f |