U+FDB3 "ﶳ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDB3 "ﶳ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing a connected sequence of the Arabic letters noon (ن), hah (ح), and yeh (ي) specifically in their final position within a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed for compatibility with older text encoding systems as it consolidates common letter combinations into a single glyph. The ligature appears in written Arabic, Persian, and other languages using the script where it simplifies or enhances the visual rendering of these letters together.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDB3
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Noon with Hah with Yeh 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
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﶳ
HTML Hex Encoding ﶳ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB6 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDB3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDB3
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdb3

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
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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