U+FC9F "ﲟ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FC9F "ﲟ" Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found within the Arabic script block, specifically designed for calligraphic and high-quality text rendering. It represents the combination of the Arabic letters Beh (ب) and Meem (م) in their initial forms, meaning it appears at the beginning of a word where both letters connect. This character is part of the "Arabic Presentation Forms-A" range, which encodes contextual shapes and ligatures to support aesthetic printing and digital fonts, allowing for a smoother and more traditional visual flow without needing separate glyph substitutions. While primarily used in legacy systems or specialized fonts, it aids in preserving the cursive elegance of Arabic script in formal documents and religious texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FC9F
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Beh with Meem Initial Form
Block	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Arabic Letter
Decomposition Type	Initial
Decomposition Mapping	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲟ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲟ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFC9F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FC9F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufc9f

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	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ب" U+0628 Arabic Letter Beh "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