U+FD2C "ﴬ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Reh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD2C "ﴬ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Reh Final Form is a presentation form glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a typographic ligature of the letters Dad (ض) and Reh (ر) in their final form when they appear as a connected pair at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to encode specialized contextual shapes for text rendering systems, particularly to support legacy fonts and complex calligraphic styles in the Arabic writing system. Its usage is primarily historical or system-specific, as modern Unicode text processing typically relies on dynamic shaping algorithms to automatically form such ligatures from the standard characters, rather than requiring dedicated codepoints.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD2C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Dad with Reh 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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴬ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴬ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD2C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD2C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd2c

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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "ر" U+0631 Arabic Letter Reh
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