U+FCCC "ﳌ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCCC "ﳌ" Arabic Ligature Lam with Meem Initial Form is a special typographic variant used in the Arabic script to represent the joined initial forms of the letters Lam (ل) and Meem (م) when they appear as a ligature at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed specifically to support advanced cursive rendering and compatibility with older text processing systems. Its use helps create a more cohesive and aesthetically consistent appearance in Arabic calligraphy and typesetting, though in modern Unicode implementations it is often replaced by the standard sequence of Lam and Meem plus a shaping engine that automatically produces the correct ligated form.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCCC
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Lam 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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳌ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳌ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCCC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCCC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufccc

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	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ل" U+0644 Arabic Letter Lam "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