U+FC88 "ﲈ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Alef Final Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FC88 "ﲈ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Alef Final Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically representing a combined glyph of the letters Meem (م) and Alef (ا) in their final positional form. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which is intended for compatibility with legacy text rendering systems and is not typically used for modern plain text. Its design reflects the calligraphic joining of the two letters at the end of a word, where the Meem curves into the vertical stroke of the Alef, appearing as a single, compact unit for aesthetic or script rendering purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FC88 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Alef 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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFC88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FC88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufc88 |
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 | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ا" U+0627 Arabic Letter Alef |
| 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 |