U+FCF2 "" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha Medial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Kufi Arabic Source: Browser Default

U+FCF2 "" Arabic Ligature Shadda with Fatha Medial Form is a presentation form character in the Arabic script specifically designed for complex text layout systems. It represents a ligature that combines the shadda diacritic, which indicates gemination or doubling of a consonant, with the fatha vowel sign, which marks a short 'a' sound, positioned in the medial form of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block and was created to allow more accurate rendering of Arabic text in digital typography, particularly in older or specialized font systems where automatic ligature formation might not be supported. Its primary purpose is to ensure that the combined diacritics appear correctly in the middle of a word, preserving the visual and phonetic integrity of the script for readers and textual databases.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xB3 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFCF2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FCF2
C/C++/Java Escape
\ufcf2