U+FC4E "ﱎ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC4E "ﱎ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic representation of the two Arabic letters noon (ن) and meem (م) combined into a single glyph for use in certain calligraphic or typesetting contexts. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to provide precomposed ligatures that simplify the rendering of common letter combinations in Arabic script. The isolated form indicates that this ligature appears on its own without connecting to adjacent letters, typically at the beginning of a word or in standalone instances. Its usage preserves traditional aesthetics in religious or formal texts, such as in the Quran, where smooth and connected scripts are valued for readability and visual harmony.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC4E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon 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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱎ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱎ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC4E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC4E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc4e

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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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