U+FCDD "ﳝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Initial Form Unicode Character

U+FCDD "ﳝ" Arabic Ligature Yeh with Meem Initial Form is a typographic ligature used in the Arabic script, specifically combining the Arabic letters Yeh (ي) and Meem (م) in their initial forms to create a single, conjoined glyph. This ligature is part of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block in Unicode, designed for compatibility with older text rendering systems that require fixed-width or precomposed shapes rather than modern dynamic cursive shaping. Its primary purpose is to represent the initial position of this letter pair within a word, facilitating accurate display in contexts like historical documents or certain software where standard Unicode Arabic shaping is not supported.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FCDD
Version Added	1.1
Name	Arabic Ligature Yeh 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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﳝ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﳝ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB3 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFCDD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FCDD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufcdd

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	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "م" U+0645 Arabic Letter Meem
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ي" U+064A Arabic Letter Yeh "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