U+FC28 "ﰨ" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC28 "ﰨ" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which represents the combination of the Arabic letter Zah (ظ) and the letter Meem (م) when they appear together in their isolated forms. This ligature is used in certain calligraphic and text rendering contexts to create a single, aesthetically fused glyph that adheres to traditional Arabic writing conventions, where the tails or curves of adjacent letters may be connected for visual harmony. It is intended for use in legacy or specialized fonts and is not typically utilized in modern standard digital text input, as it is best suited for decorative or historical Arabic script representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC28
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Zah 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	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰨ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰨ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC28
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC28
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc28

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	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "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