U+FCC3 "ﳃ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FCC3 "ﳃ" Arabic Ligature Qaf with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, specifically representing the joined initial forms of the letters Qaf (ق) and Meem (م) in certain calligraphic or connected contexts. This character is part of the Presentation Forms-A range, which encodes precomposed glyphs for better display of cursive Arabic text in legacy systems or fonts. It is used primarily for precise rendering in classical printed or digital Arabic, where the two letters combine into a single glyph to preserve the intended visual shape at the beginning of a word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCC3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Qaf 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 | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcc3 |
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 | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ق" U+0642 Arabic Letter Qaf "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 |