U+FCB0 "ﲰ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCB0 "ﲰ" Arabic Ligature Seen with Meem Initial Form is a typographic representation of the Arabic letters seen (س) and meem (م) combined into a single glyph, specifically designed to appear in the initial position of a word. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was created to support historical and stylistic rendering of Arabic script, where certain letter pairs are often joined together in calligraphy or traditional typesetting to improve visual flow and readability. This particular ligature, like others in its category, is not used in standard modern Unicode text processing as it can be formed more dynamically through proper shaping engines, but it remains important for preserving the appearance of older documents and specialized textual contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCB0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Seen 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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCB0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCB0
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcb0

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	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"س" U+0633 Arabic Letter Seen "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