U+FCAC "ﲬ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCAC "ﲬ" Arabic Ligature Khah with Meem Initial Form is a presentation form within the Arabic script block, specifically part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A range, which encodes contextual ligatures for calligraphic and typographic needs. It represents a ligature of the letter khah (خ) followed by meem (م) in their initial positional forms, meaning it is designed for use when both letters occur at the beginning of a word or syllable in connected Arabic text. This character is not typically used for plain text communication but rather for preserving historical or aesthetic rendering in documents, such as in the Quran or traditional manuscripts, where such ligatures enhance the script's flow and readability. It occupies a codepoint in the Unicode standard to ensure interoperability across systems for digital representation of these specialized typographic forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCAC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Khah 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 | "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcac |
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 | "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah "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 |