U+FC47 "ﱇ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah Isolated Form Unicode Character

U+FC47 "ﱇ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically designed to represent the combined form of the letters Meem (م) and Khah (خ) when they appear together in a certain context. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which includes various contextual and decorative glyph forms that facilitate more aesthetically pleasing or calligraphic text rendering. As an isolated form, it stands alone without connecting to adjacent letters, and it is primarily employed in historical texts, Quranic manuscripts, or decorative typography to maintain visual consistency and readability, though it is not typically used in modern standard Arabic writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC47
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱇ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱇ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC47
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC47
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc47

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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah
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