U+FCA1 "ﲡ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FCA1 "ﲡ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting, specifically representing the conjoined initial forms of the letters "teh" (ت) and "jeem" (ج) as they appear at the beginning of a word. This character was encoded in the Unicode Standard to support complex text layout and historical or stylistic Arabic fonts, where such ligatures improve visual harmony and readability. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains contextual forms and ligatures that are not typically used in modern digital text but are essential for accurate rendering of certain traditional or decorative Arabic scripts.
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Arabic Ligature Beh with Heh Initial Form
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General Properties
Code Point
U+FCA1
Name
Arabic Ligature Teh with Jeem Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﲡ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﲡ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB2 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFCA1
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FCA1
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufca1
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic