U+FCB7 "ﲷ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCB7 "ﲷ" Arabic Ligature Dad with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combination of the letters ḍād (ض) and mīm (م) in their initial positional forms, where the two characters are connected as a single glyph for calligraphic or typesetting efficiency. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, designed to facilitate the rendering of traditional Arabic text with aesthetic joins that may not be produced by standard Unicode shaping engines. It appears at the beginning of a word, as the initial form of both letters merge, and is primarily employed in contexts like Quranic or classical manuscripts to maintain historical orthographic conventions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCB7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Dad 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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲷ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲷ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCB7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCB7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcb7

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	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ض" U+0636 Arabic Letter Dad "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