U+0645 "م" Arabic Letter Meem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

م

U+0645 "م" Arabic Letter Meem is the twenty fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet and represents the bilabial nasal sound "m". Its isolated form is a round, closed shape with a small loop, and it connects to both preceding and following letters in a word, taking different contextual forms such as initial, medial, and final. In the Arabic script, Meem is frequently used in common words and religious terms, including the name Muhammad, and it carries a numerical value of 40 in the Abjad numeral system. The character is also employed in scripts influenced by Arabic, such as Persian and Urdu, and it appears in various cultural and calligraphic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+0645
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Letter Meem
Block Arabic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding م
HTML Hex Encoding م
UTF-8 Encoding 0xD9 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0645
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000645
C/C++/Java Escape \u0645

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Joining Group Meem
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Arabic
Script Extensions Arabic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter