U+FDC2 "ﷂ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Hah with Yeh Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FDC2 "ﷂ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Hah with Yeh Final Form is a typographic ligature found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to represent a combined sequence of the Arabic letters Beh (ب), Hah (ح), and Yeh (ي) in their final positional forms. This character is primarily used in specialized calligraphic or historical text contexts, where such ligatures simplify the visual representation of common letter combinations in Arabic script, particularly in words where these three letters appear consecutively at the end of a syllable or word. It is considered a presentation form rather than a standard encoding character, meaning its use is limited to specific rendering systems or fonts that support the complex shaping rules of Arabic calligraphy, and it may not be widely supported in modern Unicode implementations for general text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+FDC2
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Beh 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 "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﷂ
HTML Hex Encoding ﷂ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB7 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFDC2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FDC2
C/C++/Java Escape \ufdc2

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 "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
"ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold "ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh
"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