U+FD96 "ﶖ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FD96 "ﶖ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined glyph of the letters Noon, Hah, and Alef Maksura in their final positional form. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed for sophisticated text rendering and calligraphy where three distinct characters are condensed into a single visual unit to preserve fluent and connected writing conventions. It does not alter the underlying meaning of the letters but serves as a stylistic and practical feature for displaying traditional Arabic script in documents, digital typography, and Quranic or literary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FD96 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Noon 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 | "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFD96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FD96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufd96 |