U+FCBD "ﲽ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCBD "ﲽ" Arabic Ligature Ghain with Meem Initial Form is a special presentation form used in Arabic script typography, representing the joined combination of the letters ghain (غ) and meem (م) positioned at the beginning of a word. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was designed to support legacy text rendering and specific calligraphic styles where such connections are visually normalized. It ensures that the initial form of ghain seamlessly flows into meem, preserving the cursive continuity of the script in contexts like religious texts or traditional typesetting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCBD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Ghain 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 | "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﲽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﲽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB2 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcbd |
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 | "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "غ" U+063A Arabic Letter Ghain "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 |