U+FC25 "ﰥ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character
U+FC25 "ﰥ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic glyph used in the Arabic script to represent a specific ligature, or joined letter combination, of the Arabic letters ḍād (ض) and mīm (م) in their isolated form, where both characters are written as a single connected unit without any preceding or following letters. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support complex text rendering in older systems and digital fonts that require precomposed shapes for certain common letter pairs. It is primarily used in calligraphic and typesetting contexts for languages that employ the Arabic script, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, and it appears in styles where the two letters are naturally combined for aesthetic or readability purposes, though modern text processing often prefers dynamic shaping over precomposed ligatures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC25 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Dad 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 | "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﰥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﰥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB0 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc25 |
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 | "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "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 |