U+FCBA "ﲺ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+FCBA "ﲺ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script calligraphy and high-quality typesetting, representing the combination of the letters 'Ain (ع) and Jeem (ج) in their initial forms, which occur at the beginning of a word or syllable. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, a set of code points designed to preserve precomposed glyph shapes for compatibility with older text rendering systems that may not automatically form ligatures. Its use is primarily historical or stylistic, as modern Unicode text processing typically relies on dynamic shaping through the Arabic script's cursive joining rules rather than individual encoded ligatures.
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Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem Initial Form
General Properties
Code Point
U+FCBA
Name
Arabic Ligature Ain with Jeem Initial Form
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﲺ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﲺ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB2 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFCBA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FCBA
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufcba
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Arabic