U+FC2C "ﰬ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC2C "ﰬ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature within the Arabic script block, combining the letters ghain (غ) and meem (م) into a single, cursive glyph for use in isolation. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A range, which was designed to represent historical or stylistic typographic variants rather than being a standard rendering of the letters in modern text. It is primarily utilized in certain calligraphic or display contexts, particularly in religious or decorative settings where a smooth, connected visual form of the two consonants is desired. Because it is a precomposed ligature, its use is generally discouraged in plain digital text in favor of standard Unicode encoding and font shaping, which can automatically produce similar connections.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC2C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ghain 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	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰬ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰬ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC2C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC2C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc2c

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	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "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