U+FCAA "ﲪ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCAA "ﲪ" Arabic Ligature Hah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a combination of the letters Hah (ح) and Meem (م) in their initial form, meaning both characters are positioned at the beginning of a word. This ligature is part of the Unicode Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which encodes various cursive shape variations for sophisticated text rendering. It is primarily utilized in traditional Arabic calligraphy and printed texts to preserve the connected, flowing aesthetic of the script, though modern digital typography often reconstructs such ligatures automatically from separate characters. The character itself appears as a single glyph that merges the distinctive hook of initial Hah with the curved shape of initial Meem, and it encodes a specific visual form rather than a distinct semantic meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCAA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Hah 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 | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcaa |
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 | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah "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 |