U+FC45 "ﱅ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC45 "ﱅ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem Isolated Form is a typographic representation found within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed to display the combined letters meem (م) and jeem (ج) as a single connected glyph in their isolated form. This ligature is part of a historical or stylistic set of codepoints that were added to Unicode to facilitate the rendering of Arabic script in legacy text processing systems where such ligatures were commonly used for calligraphic or typesetting purposes. It does not represent a novel semantic unit but rather serves as a visual shortcut for the sequence of the two letters, typically appearing in contexts like decorative headings or older software that employed character-level ligatures rather than relying on modern shaping engines.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC45
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem 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	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱅ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱅ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC45
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC45
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc45

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	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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