U+FCD8 "ﳘ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+FCD8 "ﳘ" Arabic Ligature Heh with Meem Initial Form is a presentation form character used in the Arabic script to represent a typographic ligature combining the letters heh and meem in their initial (word-starting) forms, where the shapes of the two letters are merged into a single glyph for stylistic or calligraphic convenience. This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block, which contains precomposed ligatures primarily intended for compatibility with legacy text encoding systems, as modern Unicode text usually relies on standard combining mechanisms. It is not typically used in modern digital typography except when preserving the exact visual appearance of older documents or specialized fonts that require these specific ligature shapes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCD8
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Heh 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	"ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳘ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳘ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCD8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCD8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcd8

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	"ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ه" U+0647 Arabic Letter Heh "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