U+FC02 "ﰂ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC02 "ﰂ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Isolated Form is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, used to represent a typographic ligature combining the letters Yeh with Hamza Above (ئ) and Meem (م) in their isolated form for improved calligraphic rendering and text display in certain Arabic script contexts, primarily in legacy systems or specialized fonts. This particular sequence is not a standard Unicode encoding for modern text but rather a precomposed form intended to preserve glyph shapes from older character sets, and its usage is generally discouraged in favor of separate character sequences for proper text processing and digital communication, though it may still appear in historical or font-specific documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC02 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Isolated Form |
| Block | Arabic Presentation Forms-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
| Decomposition Type | Isolated |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc02 |