U+FD96 "ﶖ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura
NFKC Simple Casefold "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
"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