U+FCBB "ﲻ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCBB "ﲻ" Arabic Ligature Ain with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, specifically representing the combination of the letters Ain (ع) and Meem (م) in their initial positional form within a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains precomposed glyph variants designed to support complex calligraphic rendering and text display in systems that may not automatically create such ligatures from individual characters. It is used primarily in decorative or formal Arabic writing contexts, such as in the Quranic text or classical manuscripts, to maintain visual harmony and streamline the appearance of connected letter pairs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCBB
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Ain 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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﲻ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﲻ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB2 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCBB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCBB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcbb

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	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ع" U+0639 Arabic Letter Ain "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