U+FC3C "ﰼ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC3C "ﰼ" Arabic Ligature Kaf with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, specifically representing the combined visual form of the Arabic letters Kaf (ك) and Meem (م) joined together in their isolated shapes. This character is part of a set of precomposed ligatures designed to replicate traditional calligraphic or typesetting conventions, where certain letter pairs are merged for aesthetic or readability purposes. It is encoded for use in legacy text processing and rendering systems that require a single code point to represent the ligature rather than a sequence of individual characters, though it is not typically used in modern Unicode text, which prefers the standard decomposition of ك followed by م for interoperability.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC3C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Kaf 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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﰼ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﰼ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB0 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC3C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC3C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc3c

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	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ك" U+0643 Arabic Letter Kaf "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