U+FCA6 "ﲦ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCA6 "ﲦ" Arabic Ligature Theh with Meem Initial Form is a precomposed typographic glyph used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the initial form of a ligature that combines the letters Theh (تھ) and Meem (م). This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support traditional and calligraphic text rendering where such ligatures are required for accurate visual representation. It appears at the beginning of a word, connecting the Theh and Meem together in a cursive stroke, and is primarily employed in compatibility contexts such as legacy text or specialized typography rather than in modern, dynamic Unicode text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCA6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Theh 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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufca6

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	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ث" U+062B Arabic Letter Theh "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