U+FCCF "ﳏ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCCF "ﳏ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah Initial Form is a typographic ligature found in the Arabic script, representing the combined initial shape of the letters Meem (م) and Hah (ح) as they appear at the beginning of a word. This character is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which was designed to support complex typographic layouts and traditional calligraphic styles where two letters are joined into a single glyph for aesthetic or readability purposes. It is encoded for compatibility with older text systems and is not recommended for modern text encoding, as the letters are typically represented individually and combined dynamically by rendering engines.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCCF
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem with Hah 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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳏ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳏ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCCF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufccf

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 "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "ح" U+062D Arabic Letter Hah
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