U+FD20 "ﴠ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

U+FD20 "ﴠ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letter Khah (خ) followed by the letter Yeh (ي) in their final positional forms as they appear at the end of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to encode contextual glyph variants and ligatures for legacy text rendering and compatibility with earlier character sets. In modern digital typography, its use is largely historical or specialized, as contemporary Arabic fonts and shaping engines can automatically generate such ligatures from standard Unicode characters without relying on these precomposed forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD20
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Khah 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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴠ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴠ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD20
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD20
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd20

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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "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