U+FCD0 "ﳐ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah Initial Form Unicode Character
U+FCD0 "ﳐ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically representing a joined form of the letters Meem (م) and Khah (خ) when they appear at the beginning of a word or syllable. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which contains contextual glyph variants designed to support complex text rendering and historical calligraphic styles. Unlike standard Unicode Arabic characters that are encoded separately and shaped automatically by the rendering engine, U+FCD0 is a precomposed form that preserves a specific visual appearance for compatibility or specialized display purposes, such as in older software or in the Quranic text. Its usage is largely obsolete in modern digital typography, where bidirectional shaping algorithms and font technologies like OpenType handle ligature formation dynamically.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FCD0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Arabic Ligature Meem with Khah 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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﳐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﳐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xB3 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFCD0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FCD0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ufcd0 |
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 "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "خ" U+062E Arabic Letter Khah |
| 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 |