U+FC0D "ﰍ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC0D "ﰍ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Khah Isolated Form is a typographic composite glyph used in the Arabic script, representing the isolated form of the ligature that combines the letters "teh" (ت) and "khah" (خ) into a single connected visual unit. This character is part of the Unicode block for Arabic Presentation Forms A, which encodes contextual variants and ligatures for compatibility with older text rendering systems, rather than for standard modern encoding. Its design streamlines cursive handwriting or calligraphy by merging the two base letters seamlessly, preserving readability when they appear in sequence at the start of a word. Although rarely used in contemporary digital Arabic text, which typically relies on dynamic shaping engines, U+FC0D remains a historical residue in the Unicode standard for legacy document conversion and typographic fidelity.