U+FB14 "ﬔ" Armenian Small Ligature Men Ech Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FB14 "ﬔ" Armenian Small Ligature Men Ech is a typographic ligature used in the Armenian alphabet, specifically combining the letters Men (Մ) and Ech (Է) into a single glyph for aesthetic or space-saving purposes in traditional manuscript or print styles. It belongs to the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, which contains various script-specific ligatures and contextual alternates, and it represents a historical or stylistic variant rather than a character with its own distinct phonetic value. This ligature is encoded primarily to support faithful digital reproduction of classical Armenian texts, where such joined forms appear in high-quality typography or scribal practice.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FB14 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Armenian Small Ligature Men Ech |
| Block | Alphabetic Presentation Forms |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "մ" U+0574 Armenian Small Letter Men "ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﬔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﬔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xAC 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFB14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FB14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufb14 |