U+FB15 "ﬕ" Armenian Small Ligature Men Ini Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FB15 "ﬕ" Armenian Small Ligature Men Ini is a typographic ligature used in the Armenian script to represent the combination of two distinct letters, Men (Մ) and Ini (Ն), fused into a single character for aesthetic or calligraphic convenience in traditional manuscript or printed text. This ligature is classified as a presentation form within the Unicode standard, meaning it was encoded to preserve the visual appearance of the two letters as they traditionally appear joined together, rather than being a distinct phonetic or semantic unit. It is rarely used in modern digital communication, but it remains part of the Unicode repertoire to support historical and liturgical Armenian documents where such ligatures are common.

General Properties

Code Point U+FB15
Version Added 1.1
Name Armenian Small Ligature Men Ini
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
"ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﬕ
HTML Hex Encoding ﬕ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xAC 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFB15
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FB15
C/C++/Java Escape \ufb15

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
"Ի" U+053B Armenian Capital Letter Ini
Titlecase Code Point "Մ" U+0544 Armenian Capital Letter Men
"ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini
Case Folding "մ" U+0574 Armenian Small Letter Men
"ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini
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
"ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini
NFKC Simple Casefold "մ" U+0574 Armenian Small Letter Men
"ի" U+056B Armenian Small Letter Ini
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