U+FC72 "ﱲ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC72 "ﱲ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Final Form is a typographic variant within the Arabic script block, specifically categorized as an Arabic Presentation Forms-B ligature. It represents the joined combination of the letters "teh" (ت) and "meem" (م) in their final form, meaning it is designed to appear at the end of a word where these two letters connect. This character was encoded for compatibility with legacy text systems that required precomposed forms for proper display, and its use facilitates the cursive, connected writing style of Arabic calligraphy and typography. While modern Unicode typically handles such combinations through dynamic shaping, this ligature remains available for preserving historical or specialized text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC72
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﱲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﱲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB1 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC72
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC72
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc72

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	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ت" U+062A Arabic Letter Teh "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