U+FDA8 "ﶨ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form Unicode Character
U+FDA8 "ﶨ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Khah with Alef Maksura Final Form is a typographic ligature used primarily in the Arabic script to represent the combined sequence of the letters Seen (س), Khah (خ), and Alef Maksura (ى) when they appear together in a word final position. This ligature, part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, is designed for historical or complex calligraphic rendering, where multiple characters are fused into a single glyph for aesthetic or stylistic reasons, improving visual harmony in traditional text. It is not typically used in modern standard digital text due to its specialized nature, but it supports precise reproduction of certain Qur’anic or classical manuscripts where such ligatures are prescribed. The character's official Unicode name emphasizes its final form, meaning it only appears at the end of a word, and it carries the bidirectional property of an Arabic letter, flowing right to left within a block of Arabic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FDA8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Seen 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 | "س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "ى" U+0649 Arabic Letter Alef Maksura |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﶨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﶨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB6 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFDA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FDA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufda8 |