U+FC42 "ﱂ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC42 "ﱂ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, representing the graphical combination of the Arabic letters Lam (ل) and Meem (م) in their isolated form to create a single connected glyph. This character is used in certain contexts of Arabic script calligraphy and digital text rendering to maintain a visually cohesive and traditional appearance, particularly in older font encodings or when preserving the aesthetic of classical Arabic manuscript styles. Its primary function is to serve as a precomposed form for the letter pair to simplify text display in systems that might not dynamically generate ligatures, though it is less commonly employed in modern Unicode implementations which rely on cursive shaping engines.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC42
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam 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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱂ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱂ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC42
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC42
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc42

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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "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