U+FCA4 "ﲤ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCA4 "ﲤ" Arabic Ligature Teh with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting, representing the joined initial forms of the letters Teh (ت) and Meem (م) when they appear together at the beginning of a word. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains specialized ligatures designed for precise rendering of manuscript styles. Its use ensures that the combined shape of the two letters maintains the proper cursive connection and visual harmony as dictated by traditional Arabic writing conventions, though it is considered a presentation form rather than a basic encoding for general text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCA4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Teh 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	"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 0xB2 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCA4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCA4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufca4

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