U+FCB9 "ﲹ" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCB9 "ﲹ" Arabic Ligature Zah with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing the initial form of the letter Zah (ظ) combined with the letter Meem (م). This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which includes various contextual forms of Arabic characters and ligatures designed for compatibility with older text rendering systems. The character is typically employed in complex text layout to accurately display the joined, cursive form of these letters when they appear at the beginning of a word, reflecting the continuous horizontal flow of Arabic calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCB9
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Zah 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	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲹ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲹ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCB9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCB9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcb9

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	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ظ" U+0638 Arabic Letter Zah "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