U+FC4A "ﱊ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Yeh Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC4A "ﱊ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Yeh Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the letters meem (م) and yeh (ي) into a single, graphically connected glyph for the isolated form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was encoded to support complex calligraphic and print traditions where certain letter pairs are written as a fused shape. It is typically employed in contexts where the meem and yeh appear consecutively and in their standalone position, such as in formal text or digital typesetting that aims to replicate traditional Arabic calligraphy. The ligature helps maintain visual harmony and readability by avoiding awkward spacing or disjointed letter forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC4A
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem with Yeh 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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱊ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱊ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC4A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC4A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc4a

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 "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh
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