U+FCCE "ﳎ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCCE "ﳎ" Arabic Ligeme Meem with Jeem Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script block, representing the combination of the letters Meem (م) and Jeem (ج) when they appear together at the beginning of a word. This ligature is designed for visual coherence in Arabic calligraphy and text rendering, where two or more characters are merged into a single glyph to improve aesthetics and readability. It is categorized as a presentation form, specifically an initial form, meaning it only occurs when these letters are in the initial position of a word and are joined seamlessly. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A range, used primarily in legacy systems or specialized typography to encode ligatures that are not typically required in modern Unicode text encoded with more standard character sequences.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCCE
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem with Jeem 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	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳎ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳎ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCCE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCCE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcce

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	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ج" U+062C Arabic Letter Jeem
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