U+FC12 "ﰒ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC12 "ﰒ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the joined rendering of the Arabic letters theh (ث) and meem (م) in their isolated form within a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms block, which contains glyph variants used for aesthetic or calligraphic purposes rather than for essential text encoding. It allows the two characters to be displayed as a single connected shape, common in traditional Arabic calligraphy and certain fonts designed for fluent handwriting. The character is typically employed in contexts where precise visual representation of the Arabic script is required, such as in Quranic texts or classical literature, though it is not used for general modern digital text due to the availability of standard Unicode joining mechanisms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC12
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Theh 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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰒ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰒ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC12
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC12
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc12

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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "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