U+FCA5 "ﲥ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Heh Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FCA5 "ﲥ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Heh Initial Form is a typographic variant used in certain styles of Arabic script, representing a connected initial form of the ligature combining the letters "teh" (ت) and "heh" (ه). This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual shapes for cursive handwriting and calligraphy, and it appears at the beginning of a word where the two letters merge into a single glyph. Its purpose is to support precise text rendering in legacy systems or specialized fonts, though it is generally not used in modern standard Arabic text encoding, as the base letters are composable through Unicode's joining mechanism.
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General Properties
Code Point
U+FCA5
Name
Arabic Ligature Teh with Heh Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﲥ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﲥ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB2 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFCA5
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FCA5
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufca5
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic