U+FC1B "ﰛ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC1B "ﰛ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script to represent the ligature formed by the letters Khah (خ) and Meem (م) joined together in their isolated forms. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was encoded primarily to support legacy text rendering and specific calligraphic styles, rather than modern plain text. It visually prints as a single connected shape, where the Khah character connects directly to the following Meem, creating a compact and stylized representation often found in historical or decorative contexts. This ligature facilitates accurate display of certain traditional Arabic texts without relying on complex shaping engines for each letter pair.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC1B
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Khah 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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰛ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC1B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC1B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc1b

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	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "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