U+FC2A "ﰪ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC2A "ﰪ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature that combines the Arabic letter Ain (ع) with the letter Meem (م) into a single, connected glyph used exclusively in isolated form, meaning it appears alone without connecting to preceding or following characters. This character resides in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a range of Unicode designed to represent precomposed cursive variants for improved layout and readability in traditional Arabic script. Its primary function is to facilitate the accurate rendering of common letter combinations in calligraphic and printed texts, ensuring that the joined shape of Ain and Meem appears as a cohesive visual unit in contexts like typesetting the Quran or literary works, where such ligatures preserve the aesthetic flow and character of Arabic handwriting.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC2A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ain 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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰪ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰪ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC2A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC2A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc2a

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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "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