U+FC52 "ﱒ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem Isolated Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﱒ
U+FC52 "ﱒ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem Isolated Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the joined form of the letters heh (ه) and meem (م) when they appear together in their isolated shape. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes contextual forms and ligatures for improved visual rendering of complex text layouts. It is primarily utilized in calligraphic and high quality digital typesetting to ensure smooth, cursive connections between adjacent letters, particularly in decorative or fully connected text styles found in traditional Quranic and literary manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC52 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Heh 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 | "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﱒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﱒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB1 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC52 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc52 |
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 | "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "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 |