U+FC9C "ﲜ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FC9C "ﲜ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic composite used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the initial form of the letter Beh (ب) combined with Jeem (ج) as a single connected glyph. This ligature belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized character shapes for calligraphic and typesetting contexts, particularly in languages like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It is typically employed in traditional or formal text layouts where smooth, cursive joining of letters is visually prioritized, and it appears only in the initial position of a word, as indicated by its "initial form" designation.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+FC9C
Name
Arabic Ligature Beh with Jeem Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﲜ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﲜ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB2 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFC9C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FC9C
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufc9c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic