U+FC85 "ﲅ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

U+FC85 "ﲅ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Final Form is a typographic presentation form used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combined appearance of the letters Lam (ل) and Meem (م) when they occur in the final position of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which provides alternative glyph shapes for improved readability in contexts like Quranic or calligraphic text, rather than being a standard character for modern digital communication. Its usage is largely legacy or aesthetic, simplifying the visual rendering of the two letters into a single connected form that adheres to traditional calligraphic conventions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC85
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam 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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲅ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲅ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC85
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC85
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc85

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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "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