U+FC48 "ﱈ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC48 "ﱈ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic rendering of two consecutive Arabic letter meems (م) joined together as a single glyph in their isolated shapes, used in cursive scripts like Nastaliq or Naskh to represent the sound "mm" in a compact, visually seamless manner. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, designed for compatibility with legacy text and digital fonts that require precomposed ligatures for proper display, and it appears primarily in contexts where automated ligature formation is not supported. While this character is not essential for modern Unicode processing due to the availability of dynamic shaping, it remains important for preserving the appearance of historical or stylized Arabic calligraphy in digital documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC48
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem 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	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱈ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱈ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC48
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC48
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc48

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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "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