U+FB14 "ﬔ" Armenian Small Ligature Men Ech Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Lowercase Yes
Uppercase Code Point "Մ" U+0544 Armenian Capital Letter Men
"Ե" U+0535 Armenian Capital Letter Ech
Titlecase Code Point "Մ" U+0544 Armenian Capital Letter Men
"ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
Case Folding "մ" U+0574 Armenian Small Letter Men
"ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
Cased Yes
Changes When Casefolded Yes
Changes When Casemapped Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
Changes When Titlecased Yes
Changes When Uppercased Yes
NFKC Casefold "մ" U+0574 Armenian Small Letter Men
"ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
NFKC Simple Casefold "մ" U+0574 Armenian Small Letter Men
"ե" U+0565 Armenian Small Letter Ech
Script Armenian
Script Extensions Armenian
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 Lower