U+FC16 "ﰖ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC16 "ﰖ" Arabic Ligature Jeem with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that represents the combination of the Arabic letters Jeem (ج) and Meem (م) in their isolated forms, joined into a single glyph for improved calligraphic aesthetics in certain styles of Arabic script. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed for backward compatibility with legacy text encodings rather than for modern digital text input, where separate letters and dynamic shaping are preferred. It appears as a specific cursive form where the initial Jeem flows seamlessly into a connected Meem, though its usage is generally limited to specialized or historical contexts, such as in certain religious texts or decorative typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC16
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Jeem 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	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰖ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰖ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC16
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc16

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	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem "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