U+FC66 "ﱦ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FC66 "ﱦ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script presentation forms block, representing the combination of the characters Yeh with Hamza Above and Meem in their final positional form. This ligature is designed for use in traditional or calligraphic contexts where two or more letters are joined into a single glyph to achieve a more fluid and aesthetically pleasing appearance, particularly in languages like Arabic or Persian that employ the Arabic writing system. It is part of a larger set of presentation forms intended for backward compatibility with older encoding standards and may not be necessary for modern plain text, as it can be produced through standard Unicode combining sequences.

General Properties

Code Point U+FC66
Version Added 1.1
Name Arabic Ligature Yeh with Hamza Above with Meem Final Form
Block Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type Final
Decomposition Mapping "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ﱦ
HTML Hex Encoding ﱦ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xB1 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFC66
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FC66
C/C++/Java Escape \ufc66

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 "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold "ئ" U+0626 Arabic Letter Yeh with Hamza Above
"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