U+FC89 "ﲉ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Meem Final Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC89 "ﲉ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Meem Final Form is a typographic character used in the Arabic script to represent a two-letter ligature where the letter meem is written twice in a combined form, specifically in its final position within a word. This ligature is part of a block of Arabic presentation forms that were encoded to support advanced text rendering for legacy fonts and certain document formats, allowing for the graphical representation of a double meem that appears more compact or stylistically unified than writing two separate meem characters. In modern digital text processing, U+FC89 is generally considered a deprecated presentation form, as contemporary Unicode-based systems and fonts handle such ligatures automatically through shaping rules, making the character mostly relevant for historical or compatibility purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC89
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem 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	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲉ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲉ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC89
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC89
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc89

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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "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