U+FD3C "ﴼ" Arabic Ligature Alef with Fathatan Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FD3C "ﴼ" Arabic Ligature Alef with Fathatan Final Form is a presentation form character used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the letter alef combined with the fathatan diacritic which indicates the nunation sound "an" at the end of a word. This character appears in its final form, meaning it is designed to be positioned at the end of a word and is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which provides precomposed ligatures for improved typographic display. It should be noted that this character is deprecated in modern Unicode standards, as its encoding purpose has been superseded by the use of regular Arabic characters combined with covering diacritics, but it may still be encountered in older digital texts and fonts for compatibility purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FD3C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Alef with Fathatan 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	"ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﴼ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﴼ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB4 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFD3C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FD3C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufd3c

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	"ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef "ً" U+064B Arabic Fathatan
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