U+FC34 "ﰴ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC34 "ﰴ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script specifically to represent the combined visual appearance of the letters qaf ﻕ followed by meem م, but in their isolated forms without connecting to adjacent characters. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed glyphs designed for compatibility with older text processing systems and to facilitate precise rendering in contexts like Quranic text or calligraphy where the ligature is traditionally used. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the faithful representation of such specialized typographic conventions in digital text, ensuring that the ligature maintains its specific shape and spacing even when modern shaping engines might otherwise separate the letters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC34
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Qaf 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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC34
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC34
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc34

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	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "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