U+FCC1 "ﳁ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCC1 "ﳁ" Arabic Ligature Feh with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, representing the combined initial forms of the letters Feh (ف) and Meem (م). This character appears in the context of calligraphic or stylized text where two letters are joined into a single glyph for aesthetic or readability purposes, specifically when the ligature occurs at the beginning of a word. It belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains precomposed ligatures and contextual forms that were historically necessary for compatibility with older text processing systems, though in modern Unicode, such ligatures are typically generated automatically by rendering engines from standard base characters. The character serves in specialized text displays, such as in religious or decorative manuscripts, but is generally not used in modern plain text for standard Arabic writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCC1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Feh 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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcc1 |
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 | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ف" U+0641 Arabic Letter Feh "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 |