U+FC08 "ﰈ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC08 "ﰈ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the letters Beh (ب) and Meem (م) into a single, connected visual form when they appear in sequence. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed for compatibility with older text processing systems that required precomposed ligatures rather than dynamic shaping. The isolated form indicates that this ligature stands alone, not connected to other characters on either side, and it is primarily utilized in contexts where a direct ligature representation is needed for display or printing, though modern Unicode systems typically rely on cursive joining behavior instead of such precomposed forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC08
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh 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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰈ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰈ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC08
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc08

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
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