U+FCD1 "ﳑ" Arabic Ligature Meem with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ﳑ

U+FCD1 "ﳑ" Arabic Ligee, Meem with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in standard Arabic script calligraphy and typesetting, combining two consecutive meem letters into a single connected glyph that appears at the beginning of a word or syllable. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which encodes specialized contextual forms to better replicate the fluid, cursive nature of handwritten Arabic. Its initial form specifically indicates that the ligature is designed for the start of a word, where the first meem takes the initial shape and the second meem connects to it in a seamless, elongated stroke. This allows for more elegant and space-efficient text rendering in traditional Arabic print and digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCD1
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Meem 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	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳑ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳑ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCD1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCD1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcd1

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 "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem "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