U+FD6E "ﵮ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FD6E "ﵮ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature from the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to represent a specific connected sequence of three Arabic letters: Dad, Hah, and Alef Maksura. This ligature is used in the final position of a word, where the letters combine into a single visual glyph for calligraphic or typesetting purposes, primarily in historical or formal Arabic texts. It encodes a complex character shape that simplifies the rendering of this particular consonant-vowel combination, reflecting the rich tradition of Arabic script where ligatures enhance readability and aesthetic flow.

General Properties

Code Point U+FD6E
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Dad with Hah 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 "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﵮ
HTML Hex Encoding ﵮ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB5 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFD6E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FD6E
C/C++/Java Escape \ufd6e

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
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
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