U+FDA2 "ﶢ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﶢ
U+FDA2 "ﶢ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a complex combination of the letters Teh (ت), Khah (خ), and Alef Maksura (ى) in their final form, which occurs when the ligature appears at the end of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to facilitate precise digital representation of traditional calligraphic styles, where these three letters are joined together as a single glyph for aesthetic or readability purposes. It is primarily employed in historical or specialized text rendering, rather than in modern standard Arabic writing, and requires a compatible font to display correctly.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDA2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah 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 | "ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDA2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufda2 |