U+FC09 "" Arabic Ligature Beh with Alef Maksura Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FC09 "" Arabic Ligature Beh with Alef Maksura Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letter Beh (ب) followed by Alef Maksura (ى) in their isolated form, meaning it appears as a single, unified glyph when these two characters occur together in text. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which is designed for legacy compatibility and advanced typographic rendering in systems that support complex script shaping. It is primarily used in older or specialized font implementations to maintain the visual integrity of the connected letters, though modern Unicode text processing typically handles such ligatures dynamically through font algorithms rather than requiring separate encoded characters.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ﰉ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﰉ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB0 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFC09
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FC09
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufc09