U+FCD5 "ﳕ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCD5 "ﳕ" Arabic Ligature Noon with Meem Initial Form is a typographic composite glyph within the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, specifically designed to represent the joined initial form of the Arabic letters noon (ن) and meem (م) as a single ligature. This character is intended for use in legacy or complex text rendering contexts where the standard Unicode combining and shaping mechanisms may not automatically produce the desired cursive connection, particularly at the beginning of a word. Its inclusion facilitates compatibility with older fonts and documents that rely on precomposed ligatures, though modern Arabic script processing typically handles such combinations dynamically through shaping engines.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCD5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Noon 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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳕ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳕ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCD5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCD5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcd5

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	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ن" U+0646 Arabic Letter Noon "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