U+FC1F "ﰟ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC1F "ﰟ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic presentation form found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, used to represent a stylistic ligature of the Arabic letters Seen (س) and Meem (م) combined into a single glyph when appearing in an isolated position. This character is part of a set of compatibility decomposable forms that encode specific cursive shapes for fine typography, primarily to support legacy text rendering and complex script systems. It does not carry its own semantic meaning but instead serves as a visual rendering variant, aiding in the accurate display of certain words or phrases in classical or formal Arabic calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC1F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen 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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰟ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰟ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC1F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC1F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc1f

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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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