U+FC0E "ﰎ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC0E "ﰎ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic representation found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block of the Unicode standard, designed to render a specific combination of the letters "teh" (ت) and "meem" (م) as a single, connected glyph in their isolated form. This ligature is historically used in certain styles of Arabic calligraphy and typesetting to produce a visually seamless join between these two characters when they appear independently, without connecting to preceding or following letters. It serves a specialized purpose in digital text reproduction, preserving traditional calligraphic conventions where such ligatures were commonplace, though it is not typically required for standard modern Arabic text, which instead uses the general Arabic block characters and dynamic shaping algorithms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC0E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰎ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰎ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC0E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC0E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc0e

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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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